Computational media women are retained to graduation

After my post claiming that Georgia Tech’s Computational Media program is the most gender-balanced, ABET-accredited computing undergraduate degree program in the United States, I had several people ask, “But that’s enrollment. Do the women graduate? Do they stick with the program?” My sense was that they did, but I asked our College data person, Elijah Cameron, and he sent me the below. Last year, BS in Computational Media graduates were over 40% female. Pretty good.

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1. We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem: Why Computational Media is so female | Computing Education Blog | May 19, 2017 at 7:00 am

[…] program. The BS in CM at Georgia Tech is now 47% female, while the BS in CS is only 20% female. CM may be perceived as front-end and CS as […]
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