Re:Computer Science Graduates are the Least Employable in th...
by ig1 on Friday November 02, 2012 @05:29PM
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I used to run a university comparison site largely based upon HESA data so I have a reasonable level of expertise in this field.
The data is hugely flawed, primarily because under the title of "Computer Science" they're aggregating together all technology related degree. So it includes subjects like "Game Design" and "Multimedia" which have very low employability which brings down the average substantially.
There's also a strong correlation between university quality and employment rate. At the top CS departments employment is often in the high 90s.
I actually wrote to the government minister responsible for higher education (David Willets) on this precise issue expressing my concern that the poor classification of subjects was resulting in misleading news coverage which in turn would scare much-needed students away from studying Computer Science.
The data is hugely flawed, primarily because under the title of "Computer Science" they're aggregating together all technology related degree. So it includes subjects like "Game Design" and "Multimedia" which have very low employability which brings down the average substantially.
There's also a strong correlation between university quality and employment rate. At the top CS departments employment is often in the high 90s.
I actually wrote to the government minister responsible for higher education (David Willets) on this precise issue expressing my concern that the poor classification of subjects was resulting in misleading news coverage which in turn would scare much-needed students away from studying Computer Science.
Here's the reply I got:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11248954/243427%20Signed%20letter%2...
(apologies for it being in PDF)