entity Updated 2026-07-12 Tags: Organization, Education, Data

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center is the enrollment-data source cited in Fewer students are enrolling in computer science classes and majors. The Marketplace Tech episode says its data showed a fall in U.S. computer and information science enrollment, described as the first such drop since 2020.

The center’s role in the wiki is measurement rather than interpretation. Carrie George and the Computing Research Association provide the episode’s explanation of why the decline is uneven across computing fields, while the Research Center supplies the headline enrollment signal behind Computing Enrollment Decline.

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