<p>In the spring of 2009, five years ago, there were 33 declared Computer Science majors, and 10 of them got bachelor’s degrees that convocation. This winter (the spring numbers aren’t out yet), there were 120 declared Computer Science majors. That’s a slight increase over last spring, when there were 115, and 29 graduated, but declared majors usually go up from winter to spring as more second years declare majors, so the spring numbers will show a more substantial increase. (But not to 200, unless you are counting graduate students.) People who have the convocation program can tell us how many people just graduated with computer science majors, but I bet it was 40+.</p>
<p>(The University Registrar’s office has super-cool quarterly statistical reports available online that give you all sorts of data.)</p>
<p>^^ I was referencing a casual conversation with a CS student and a CS Professor. I did not get the actual count from the registrar. Anyway, the interest in CS at Chicago has exploded.</p>
These are good times for CS grads. S1 is very happy that he will be seeing a few familiar faces from uchicago when he comes back to Seattle to work.</p>
<p>PBK are selected entirely on GPA. It’s the top ~10% of the class. (~1/3 of the students are selected in Spring of their 3rd year, remaining are selected in Spring of 4th year.)</p>
<p>Student Marshall are selected based on their GPA & their contributions to the University. There is a GPA cut-off. From this population, they select students who have made varying contributions to the University and look to have a diversity in majors.</p>
<p>It turns out that there were still only 34 CS graduates this year, although in the spring there were 150 people with declared CS majors in their second-fourth years. That implies there are about 60 CS majors per class coming up, so a sixfold increase in six years.</p>