The very jobs we're training students to do are the ones we're exporting. ... number of computer science graduates fall [smart students ?]

Reforms, not rhetoric, needed to keep jobs on U.S. soil | By Ed Frauenheim and Mike Yamamoto | May 4, 2004, 4:00AM PT
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... the chief information officer at Trimble Navigation, a satellite software company based in Sunnyvale, Calif., that has more than 2,000 employees. "The realism is missing: Unless they're in the top 5 percent of schools, they haven't got any hope. The very jobs we're training students to do are the ones we're exporting."


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That movement is precisely what many fear most. While manufacturing, basic programming and other types of commoditized work have already left the country, the U.S. technology industry has traditionally viewed its advanced research as the secret ingredient that keeps it at No. 1.

"R&D budgets are migrating offshore. These are red flags, because this is the heart of our business," said George Gilbert, the managing partner of the Tech Strategy Partners consultancy and a former market analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston. "It's not just labor arbitrage. Now, it's being called 'distributed development.'"
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Forrester Research has projected that about 473,000 computer services jobs will go offshore by 2015. In addition, research firm Gartner has estimated that 1 out of 10 jobs at information technology companies will move to emerging markets and that 1 out of 20 jobs in internal information systems departments will move overseas by the end of this year.
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that demand for software engineers will grow by nearly 50 percent between 2002 and 2012. But if the number of computer science graduates at U.S. universities continues to fall, a rising percentage of those jobs will likely go overseas.
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The enrollment decline is most striking in California, home to Silicon Valley. Preliminary figures from San Jose State University, which counted 765 students in its computer science program in spring 2002, show a drop of about 30 percent, to 535, in the same period this year. Similar decreases have been reported throughout California State University's 19-campus system, including the one in San Francisco, which had recently considered closing its School of Engineering altogether. ...