Ogre is not amused

In another sign of economic recovery, starting salaries for computer science grads have surged to an average of $53,051, bumping up 4.5 percent and making a new high for the decade, according to Ars Technica.

The surge suggests a shortage in professional IT manpower, which Ars' Nate Anderson attributes to the dot-com bust and "subsequent mass migration of programming jobs to south Asia," which caused comp sci students to "bolt from their majors like horses from a barn fire."

Sure enough, Chronicle of Higher Education wrote in 2005 that interest in the major was in a free fall, with those who declared it dropping 32 percent from 2000 to 2004.