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This is a guess although I work in "edtech" and wrote a thesis on institutional finance so it's a slightly educated guess--I think rising tuition rates coupled with stagnant real wages and increasing CoL change the cost-benefit on the value of any given degree. It's probably not a social pressure or potential increase in earning as much as a perception of CS/STEM being the only way to get by or else it's just not worth getting a degree since college enrollment is slowing or decreasing recently.