Let's see what the stats say:
Engineering on the Rise: Engineering Degrees More Popular Now
Atlanta (September 8, 2003) Across the nation, engineering is gaining in popularity at all degree levels and bachelors degrees could be on their way to surpassing the 70,000 mark last reached in 1988, according to a recent survey by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
The ASEE reports bachelors degrees awarded in 2001-2002 increased 3.4 percent to 67,301, marking the third year of growth nationally at the undergraduate level. Overall, bachelors degrees increased by 7.9 percent since the 1998-1999 academic year.
The latest enrollment figures show the upward trend continues at Tech. In the 2003 fiscal year, 1,286 bachelor degrees were awarded in engineering. Techs strengths in its undergraduate recruitment program have led to the Institutes status of being the largest producer of engineers in the country. In turn, thats helped the College of Engineering maintain its focus on quality and diversity, rather than quantity, said Narl Davidson, associate dean of engineering.
Our undergraduate enrollments have grown in the past two years due to the success of the Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program at the GT-Savannah campus and due to the recruiting efforts of the Women-in-Engineering program here in Atlanta, Davidson said.
The ASEE study found that growth in undergraduate degrees is not consistent across the disciplines. For example, in the past three years, biomedical degrees nationally jumped 49 percent at the bachelors level, while chemical engineering degrees decreased by 11 percent. Electrical and computing engineering bachelors degrees rose 18 percent.
The ASEE confirms this growth trend continued through 2004... The Year In Numbers
Law School Application Trends...(Data from LSAC Reports, 1989-2005)
From about 1994 through 2000, the number of applications to U.S. law schools was fairly constant. In 2001, however, there was a large increase in the applicant pool -- about 10% nationally. This increase was not evenly distributed across law schools; some had increases of nearly 50%, while a few had a slight decrease. In 2002, the increases, and the extremes of variance, were even greater. In 2003 there was an increase in apps, but law schools were better at dealing with it, so there was less chaos. In 2004 there was a slight downturn, which seems to be continuing in 2005.
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So, you were saying?
Is the rest of your data this stale? Perhaps you don't work in "high tech", and are therefore unaware of the fact that the vast majority of venture capital, which used to fund high tech innovation here in the US, has been going to China and India during the past five years?
did you read the link I sent you? Its more current then this. do you realize how many of these students are foreign nationals?