Promoting Computer Science programmes to potential students: 10 Myths for Computer Science
Thanos Hatziapostolou, Anna Sotiriadou, Petros Kefalas · 2008
During the last decade, our involvement with discussing with potential students and their parents before they apply for an undergraduate Computer Science programme, made us realise that there exist patterns in people’s minds about Computer Science studies and profession. These patterns form misconceptions, which we identified as myths. In this paper, we present ten of them. We argue that these could be used as a promotion tool to attract potential students. Bearing in mind that Computer Science programmes all over the world have suffered a decrease in admissions, we believe that a good marketing policy that will lift public misconceptions about Computer Science will contribute to attracting more students to the discipline.