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Computer Science: A Bad Deal For US Students

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Friday, February 04, 2005

Students in the United States are nowadays thinking twice before applying for Computer Science majors as their job prospects are bleak due to outsourcing of IT jobs to countries like India and China, an IT professionals association has said.

The scarcity of entry level jobs and low salaries have discouraged many and there seems to be no immediate end to the decline of students pursuing degrees in Computer Sciences, the IT Professionals Association of America inc, a non-profit corporation, says.

Scott Kirwin, founder of the group, says that shortage concerns voiced by industry leaders such as Microsoft, HP, and IBM are overblown.

“People vote with their feet,” says Kirwin. “Salaries continue to decline in IT, and entry-level positions for new graduates are hard to come by since most of these have been off shored to India and China.

“Given that the average college student graduates with USD 50,000 in debt, it makes sense that he or she would avoid fields such as IT that are disappearing, and go into those that provide the income necessary to pay back that debt.”

Blaming supporters of outsourcing and labour dumping, he said “Pro-off shoring and pro-labour dumping industry sponsored groups like the IT Association of America (ITAA) and Compete America want talent, but they don`t want to pay for it - so they head abroad to find that talent on the cheap. The free market goes both ways.”

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