COLLEGE STUDENTS FLOCK TO COMPUTER SCIENCE - The New York Times

Computer science, a field in which there was no major at most colleges and universities before the 1970's, is fast becoming one of the most popular majors as enrollments grow so rapidly that some schools must limit admissions. The situation is epitomized in Boston, where Northeastern University created a College of Computer Science in 1982 with 230 students that now has an enrollment of 909. At the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one-third of all undergraduates with declared majors have chosen the department of electrical engineering and computer science. Computer science, with its lure of plentiful jobs and the possibility of youthful entrepreneurship, is accounting for an ever larger portion of the enrollment at a time that overall enrollment is no longer growing. ''These are young people who have been brought up on video games, and there is a romance in computers for them,'' said Paul M. Kalaghan, dean of the College of Computer Science at Northeastern. ''It is a chanc

Computer science, a field in which there was no major at most colleges and universities before the 1970's, is fast becoming one of the most popular majors as enrollments grow so rapidly that some schools must limit admissions. The situation is epitomized in Boston, where Northeastern University created a College of Computer Science in 1982 with 230 students that now has an enrollment of 909. At the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one-third of all undergraduates with declared majors have chosen the department of electrical engineering and computer science. Computer science, with i