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TABLE ID-3
COHORT BY MAJOR
(%’s)
Major
Year in Chemical Civil/
Electrical/ Mechanical General Total % (n)
Program
Environmental Computing
First-year 14.2 17.9 18.9 25.5 23.6 100.0 (106)
Sophomores 21.9 21.9 32.4 23.8 na 100.0 (105)
Juniors 10.8 26.5 37.3 25.3 na 100.0 (83)
Seniors 24.0 13.8 24.1 37.9 na 100.0 (58)
Total 17.3 20.5 28.1 27.0 7.1 100.0 (352) a
Enrollment 6.8 9.4
in major,
national
average,
b
36.1 16.9
2000 c
B.A. degrees
awarded
nationally,
2000 d
10.4 16.1 b
29.6 e
22.0
a Includes data on students who were added in the Spring.
b Civil only (no data available on environmental engineering majors separated from
“others”).
c Source: CPST data from the Engineering Workforce Commission (posted on
www.wepan.org).
d Source: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics
(NSF, 2002).
e Does not include computing engineering.
The distribution across majors varies somewhat by cohort. The proportion of
electrical engineering majors varies from 18.9% in the freshman 2000 cohort to 37.3% in
the junior cohort; the proportion of mechanical engineering majors varies from 23.8% in
the senior cohort to 36.1% in the junior cohort; the proportion of chemical engineering
majors varies from 10.8% in the junior cohort to 24.0% among seniors; the proportion of
civil/environmental majors varies from 13.8 among seniors cohort to 26.5% among
juniors. These fluctuations result from students’ choices without any formal enrollment
management (because of these wide fluctuations, among other considerations, an
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