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Seattle Area Lacks Computer Science Majors

by Wendy Kaufman, NPR
May 31, 2012

In Seattle alone, there are thousands of computer-related jobs waiting to be filled. But at the University of Washington, the number of bachelor's degrees in computer science is the same now as it was more than a decade ago. A lot of students have been rebuffed in their effort to major in computer science or computer engineering.

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