Compupter Science Grads Enjoy Record Starting Salaries

In another sign of economic recovery, starting salaries for computer science graduates have soared to an average of $53,051, rising 4.5 percent and making a new high for the decade, according to Ars Technica.

The surge suggests a deficiency in professional IT manpower, which Ars' Nate Anderson attributes to the dot-com bust and "subsequent mass migration of programming jobs to south Asia," which caused computer science students to "bolt from their majors like horses from a barn fire."

Sure enough, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2005 that interest in the major was in a free fall, with those who declared it dropping 32% from 2000 to 2004.