{"id":293514,"date":"2019-01-25T08:14:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T06:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=293514"},"modified":"2019-01-25T08:15:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T06:15:43","slug":"universities-cant-keep-up-with-huge-demand-for-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/trending\/293514-universities-cant-keep-up-with-huge-demand-for-computer-science.html","title":{"rendered":"Universities can&#8217;t keep up with huge demand for computer science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/24\/technology\/computer-science-courses-college.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The New York Times<\/strong><\/a> has said that it is becoming increasingly difficult for university students to be accepted into computer science courses, due to overwhelming demand.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the number of computer science majors in the US doubled between 2013 and 2017 &#8211; leaving computer science courses overpopulated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The demand is unbounded,&#8221; said Don Fussell, University of Texas computer science department.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fussell, American universities are trying to hire additional staff in the computer science department to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know of major departments that interviewed 40 candidates, and I don\u2019t think they hired anybody,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>High-quality professors are in short supply because top undergraduates choose the lucrative private sector over continuing their studies.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/293510-intels-2019-forecasts-signal-slowdown-after-data-center-surge.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel\u2019s 2019 forecasts signal slowdown after data-center surge<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a New York Times report, the number of computer science majors in the US doubled between 2013 and 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":94107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[29992,55594,32912],"class_list":["post-293514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-computer-science","tag-professor","tag-university-of-texas-at-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293538,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293514\/revisions\/293538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}