Are there 90% more computer science students and 90% fewer electrical engineering students than 50 years ago? This article makes the claim that: > While computer science course take-up had gone up by over 90 percent in the past 50 years, electrical engineering (EE) had declined by the same amount. The electronics graduate has become rarer than an Intel-based smartphone. While I understand that Computer Science is a highly popular field, has there really been such a drastic change in the number of CS vs EE students? Is there any data to substantiate this claim?

### Not in absolute numbers, but possibly in _percentage points_.

The origin of the claim comes from a presentation by Raja Koduri at Intel during a panel titled _Building the 2030 Workforce: How to attract great students and what to teach them?_ at the 2022 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits.

The original presentation does not seem to be freely available (yet) but the slide is available at SemiWiki:

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Since the original presentation is not available, I could not find exactly _how_ this data is measured or what the source is, but speaking as an EE it does not seem surprising and matches what my colleagues and the head of the EE department at my university told us.