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by coyotebush 3901 days ago
No, those two statistics alone don't say anything about the total number of CS majors. Per the article, CS represents ~20% (of students with declared majors).
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CS is 214 of an estimated 3500 female student body.

That still seems exceptionally low. Posted this upthread but in 2010 20% of the student body was in Biology (once topical sub-specialties were aggregated).

20% of ~3500 would be closer to `700, which is 3.3x the number of declared comp sci students.

Or maybe my math is wrong? I'm more interested in the actual knowledge being put in and attention being paid out than a critique of the degree naming conventions.

Thanks, I got the numbers twisted in my head.