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Others just let anyone in and teach very basic things so the graduates level would vary widely as well.

Talent is critical and sadly a large number of CS graduates do not have the talent to be good developers.

Neither of them dropped (so the percentage of BS graduates getting MS and PhD actually increased!).

But plenty of math graduates have little to no programming experience, even from top schools.

Convincing talented graduates to enter the field and transform it would make a larger difference.

You may be unemployable if you put yourself in the same bucket as the recent college graduates, so make your own bucket.

It seems to me that companies find it way more desirable to hire recent CS graduates rather than a developer with extensive experience.

Many fresh graduates just don't have the skills to cut it as a high-quality professional developer, yet the best ones have six-way auctions going.

Companies like Google and Facebook, large, profitable enterprises that can cherry-pick the best college graduates from the best schools and invest in long-term development, are one thing.

For example in K12 education the state-U system graduates twice as many teachers as there are open positions for all new and past grads to apply for.

That will not happen in Japan: top companies hire new graduates and someone who quit or was fired in middle age is unwanted in the job market.

We've seen how requirements for entry level jobs have risen, colleges work with businesses to try and produce workforce ready graduates but are met with ever increasing minimums.

Fact is, several DjangoGirls "graduates" who have never done any programming have gotten programming jobs within a year.

The focus is on getting 6-figure salaries for "coding" with lots of well known company badges indicating where graduates have been hired and what percentage get high paying good jobs.