Computer science degree programs
Renée A. McCauley, Bill Manaris · 1998
This paper presents information from a survey of departments offering accredited computer science degree programs.It discusses demographic information relakl to curricula, faculty, and students for all such programs, and identifies vkious trends based on these data.These results are of interest &d use to all accredited and non-accredited programs alike, since they facilitate monitoring -and comparisons among individual degree programs in the nation in terms of curriculum issues, faculty composition and salaries, student enrollment and graduation rates.Academic hit lnformatih (Tables l-3) -1 : This section pre$ents hiformatioh on the academic units ?ffering $13 accredited degree programs.! Table 1 diSplayq the dep@me@ names of these units.Fii-four of the surveyed academic units (97%) specified a department name.Two u&s did not specify a department naqe; iinstead they identified their academic unit as College of Co,mputer Science.',This survey was Bent to 140 university units.Of these, fifty-six (40%) returned the survey inskument.* 2 These' are divisions whose title includes the word 'engineering."SIGSCE 98 AtlantaGA USA 3, These are divisions whose title .includes"science", but not Copyright 1998 O-89791-994-7/98/ 2..%5.00 "engineering" or "arts."