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When I was at MIT recently the physical science departments noted an exodus to Course 6/CS during covid due to limits on lab work. It’s interesting how such events tend to have impacts for generations.

If you are a new student today, is the smart thing to go into engineering due to the huge population entering programming? Or will CS continue to be lucrative with a 2-4x rate of new graduates.



Any chance you could elaborate on what an exodus to Course 6/CS means? Does that mean a bunch of people switched majors to CS or do I have it backwards?

I think it will continue to be relatively lucrative, but I think the entry level will continue to become more competitive and we will see fewer people with a CS dprofessionally if we cross into oversupply.


I guess it means people switched to 'electrical engineering and computer science', as they can do this without access to physical labs.

http://catalog.mit.edu/subjects/6/




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