DS Prerequisite Enrollment

Prerequisite Courses Proportions per Year

No meaningful change
Fall 2018 Fall 2024
Intro CS 0.204 0.22
Intro Stat 0.796 0.78

  • In 2018, nearly 4X more students took intro statistics than intro computer science (n1 = 2062 and n2 = 527 respectively).

  • In 2024, 3.5X more students took intro statistics than intro computer science (n1 = 2213 and n2 = 625 respectively).

Race breakdown by prerequisite course in Fall 2024

Proportions of Student Race in Fall 2018 versus 2024 from prerequisite classes

Note the increase in proportion of Hispanic students
Fall 2018 Fall 2024
Asian 0.144 0.149
Black 0.301 0.313
Hispanic 0.308 0.368
Multi-Race 0.037 0.037
White 0.211 0.132

Explore race/ethnicity of students in Spring data science courses and Fall 2024

Explore sex of students in data science courses

Proportion of sex of data science students
Fall 2018 Fall 2024
Female 0.533 0.551
Male 0.467 0.449