its funny that IBM, one of the leaders in offshoring, would run a lecture like this:
https://www-927.ibm.com/ibm/cas/archives/2004/workshops/workshop_12.shtml
with some quotes:
"Enrollment in computer science (and in computer engineering) is down 50% over the past three years across North America." (2001-2004)
"A number of prominent newspapers (including the LA Times) have run recent stories about the 23% plunge in CS enrollments from 2002 to 2003."
the sad part is that US industry, who caused this problem, uses this data to argue for MORE OFFSHORING and MORE H1B visas - which makes the problem worse and worse. Or they blame the K-12 public school system, the same system that cranked out the engineers who created the telecommunications and internet revolution in the 1990s, all of a sudden collapsed in 2001-2005? Its laughable.
my observations are not anecdotal, unless you believe I wrote the articles and presentation given above.
How much did enrollment grow during the tech bubble? Why are you surprised enrollment dropped after the bubble burst?