Specialized Majors Hollow Computer Science

Colleges are creating many narrow majors (data science, data analytics, AI, robotics, cybersecurity) and students are shifting into them, producing a big fall in headline computer‑science degree counts even though overall computing‑related education may be steady or growing. That splintering both changes what students learn and breaks comparability of long‑run degree statistics. — This matters because degree‑count shifts rewire the tech talent pipeline, affect employer hiring expectations, and can distort policy decisions about STEM funding and immigration when raw CS degree totals are used as evidence.