Sentences with phrase «percent of computer science»

How big a problem is the pipeline — the fact that women earn only 18 percent of computer science degrees?

For example, women earn roughly 18 percent of all computer science degrees in the United States.

In comparison, just 18 percent of computer science graduates nationwide are women — a percentage that's been shrinking since 1985, when it stood at 37 percent.

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The weakness, by the same token, is in computer science, where women earn only 18 percent of undergraduate degrees.

That ongoing debate revolves around whether the lack of women in high - growth entrepreneurship is partly attributable to the fact that only 18 percent of undergraduate computer science degrees are earned by women.

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

This might not seem like a big deal, but it played a big part of lifting computer science enrollment to 40 percent women from just 10 percent.

Ninety - three percent of its alumni have gone on to declare or have an intention to declare a major or minor in computer science once they go to college.

The Midwest receives 25 percent of all research dollars in America and graduates more computer science degrees than any other region or country on planet earth.

... The first grants will support Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women)Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women)computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).»

Women receive more than 40 percent of undergraduate degrees in math, for example, but just 18 percent of degrees in computer science.

Statistics show that 25.5 percent of SEH doctoral degree holders in the labor force held a doctorate in the biological, agricultural or environmental life sciences; 18.5 percent held doctorates in engineering; 17.1 percent in physical sciences; 14.5 percent in psychology; 12.3 percent in social sciences; 4.6 percent in health; 4.5 percent in mathematics and statistics and 3 percent in computer and information sciences.

«Flow - sorting increased the amount of the Y chromosome in our dataset to about thirty percent,» said Paul Medvedev, assistant professor of computer science and engineering and of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, the other corresponding author of the paper.

A possible binding site is only functional in less than one percent of circumstances, says the study's other co-corresponding author Rohs, a professor of biological sciences, chemistry, physics, and computer science who is also a faculty member in the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.

International student numbers in the U.S. dropped between the fall of 2016 and the fall of 2017, with the largest declines seen at the graduate level in computer science (13 percent decline) and engineering (8 percent decline).

Studies show that women are significantly underrepresented in the IT field, and the number of women who've graduated with degrees in computer and information science have plummeted from 37 percent in 1985 to 18 percent in 2011.

Katsaggelos, the Joseph Cummings Professor in the McCormick School's department of electrical engineering and computer science and an NU - ACCESS faculty member, used computational methods to reconstruct the missing pixels of the X-ray fluorescence signal from the acquisition of only approximately 25 percent of the total pixels.

In fact, the overwhelming majority (about 95 percent) of the newly minted STEM majors in each cohort who enter the teaching profession teach in math or science classrooms (i.e., nonelementary and including math, biology / life science, chemistry, geology / earth / space science, physics, computer science, or general science).

In Washington State, where 93 percent of high schools don't offer AP computer science, a 2012 study found that out of 1,200 AP computer science students, just 48 were black or Hispanic.

As a matter of fact, out of the millions of AP tests taken in the United States last year, only about 0.7 percent of those were in computer science.

Nationwide, about 11,000 Americans earn their master's degree in computer science each year, implying that this single program will boost the annual national production of American computer - science master's by about 7 percent.

For example, currently only around five to 10 percent of schools offer AP computer science, and 25 states still don't allow students to count computer science courses toward high school graduation.

In a study I undertook in 1989, I found that 12 percent of the elementary and middle school magnet programs in my sample specialized in basic skills and / or individualized teaching; 11 percent offered foreign language immersion; 11 percent were science -, math -, or computer - oriented; 10 percent catered to the gifted and talented and 10 percent to the creative and performing arts; 8 percent were traditional, back - to - basics programs (demanding, for instance, dress codes and contracts with parents for supervision of homework); 7 percent were college preparatory; 7 percent were early childhood and Montessori.

Entries for the new computer science GCSE, which is intended to replace ICT, rose from 60,521 last year to 64,159 in 2017, with girls accounting for 20 percent of entries, slightly lower than last year.

The subject had proved more attractive to girls than computer science, but the proportion of female entries dropped from 41 percent to 39 percent.

Yet less than 2.4 percent of college students graduate with a degree in computer science.

In 2015, 22 percent of students taking the AP Computer Science exam were girls while 13 percent were African - American or Latino.

Additionally, a research report for BBC Learning found that 39 percent of girls who used the BBC micro: bit said they will now choose ICT / computer science as a subject option in the future, compared to just 23 percent before trying out the micro: bit.

According to Code.org, 90 percent of parents in the U.S. want their children to learn computer science — it will be crucial for many jobs in the near future — but only 40 percent of schools teach it.

A focus on STEM is not enough: Code.org also reports that while 70 percent of new STEM jobs are in computing, only 7 percent of STEM graduates are in computer science.

The Oakland Unified School District has scored another big grant from a technology company to help expand its computer science and math curriculum — a move designed to accelerate graduation rates in a district that has seen 40 percent of its students drop out of school in recent years.

Introducing Saujani, HGSE dean James Ryan (whose own 2016 commencement address went viral, leading, this spring, to a book), told the audience that in 1984, 37 percent of all computer - science graduates were women; this year that number is 18 percent.

Yet today, Australian students with tertiary Computer Science skills are falling in number and make up just two percent of the total of domestic graduates.

«In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S. colleges graduate 50 percent more students than are hired into those fields each year; of the computer science graduates not entering the IT workforce, 32 percent say it is because IT jobs are unavailable, and 53 percent say they found better job opportunities outside of IT occupations.»

Prioritizes challenging learning opportunities like the Advanced Course Network, investment in dual and concurrent enrollment, creation of a statewide Seal of Biliteracy, expansion of work - based learning opportunities, and an initiative to put computer science courses in every school in the state — by 2025, Rhode Island intends to have 100 percent of graduates earn added credentials

Fewer than 10 percent of city schools currently offer any form of computer science education, and only 1 percent of students receive it, according to estimates by the city's Department of Education.

She started a lunchtime coding club at her girls» school that was so successful that the percent of students choosing to study computer science at school went from 3 % to 70 %.

And, according to the College Board, just 11 percent of the 26,000 public and private high schools in the country offer AP computer science.

The survey showed that 91 percent of parents want their children to learn computer science; less than 8 percent of principals thought demand for the courses was that high.