NSF Reports No Geek Shortage

Baldrson writes "The NSF's report titled 'Graduate Enrollment in Science and Engineering Programs Up in 2003, But Declines for First-Time Foreign Students' (a pdf of the report released for the first time last month) is now available online. In an analysis of the report, Edwin S. Rubenstein of ESR Research states of these latest figures: '4.2 percent of science and engineering PhDs work outside their field of training, chiefly for financial reasons. This further weakens corporate America's claim of a shortage of high-tech workers.'" Interesting to see how things have changed since then.

Is it just me

[gotr00t]

or are the trolls getting lazier?

shortage?

[oh_bugger]

they say there's no shortage but the price is still $70 per barrel of geeks!

Carnegie Mellon

[Jozer99]

I'm a student at Carnegie Mellon, and I can assure you that there is no shortage of geeks in the near future.

Re:Not a shortage of high-tech workers...

[gamer4Life]

3.5% + 3.5% + 70% + 6% = 83%

Where do you get the other 17%?

Affirmative action usually helps blacks and hispanics and women, and works against white and Asian males.

Re:Carnegie Mellon

[Atario]

To paraphrase someone in an earlier thread:

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Re:Not a shortage of high-tech workers...

[Fulcrum of Evil]

Where do you get the other 17%?

MBAs. Nobody really wants to claim them as their own.

What IF we started linking to KKK sites...

[Auraiken]

Well, there would obviously be a large shortage of racist sites. Ah the power of the slashdot effect.

Re:Not a shortage of high-tech workers...

[serutan]

No geek shortage where I work, but for what it's worth the Babe Shortage is showing no sign of letting up.