Is there active recruitment of minority graduates in the field of computer science?
Companies recruit our graduates quite a bit. We have a job fair in the fall and hundreds of companies come here. Who recruits them? Practically everybody. Every company in the Fortune 500. And if you take a handful of letters and mix them up, there’s probably a federal agency with that acronym and we have some students there. It’s not as strong as it used to be-in the past anybody with a degree could get a job. Now not everybody has a job when they graduate. But when they do get a job, the offers are still quite good. The average starting salary for a computer science major here is $51,800. What nurturing opportunities do you offer? One of the things we try very hard to do is make sure students have an opportunity to get help if they need it. If someone has a difficulty, there are all sorts of people for him or her to see. The entire faculty has office hours for 10 hours a week. We hire tutors to help the students. We have supplemental instructors-upperclassmen who sit in on classes an
