CS degrees soaring

Crain's Chicago Business (June 2) -- Demand for computer science degrees, which nearly guarantees students high-paying jobs after graduation, is soaring. Because data, once the province of bean counters and marketers, is changing all businesses operate, universities are now teaching coding skills to students in other majors, launching degrees called “CS+X.” At Illinois, the state's largest engineering school, applications for its CS program soared to more than 4,000 this year from about 1,300 in 2012, said spokesman Bill Bell. He said U of I began offering its own “CS +X” degrees last year, and it has about 100 students majoring in computer science plus liberal studies in anthropology, astronomy, chemistry, linguistics and other fields.”