Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

In the interconnected world of big data, it’s no secret the field of computer science is booming. At Northwestern, the number of computer science majors has grown more than 600 percent since 2011, ...

Computer science majors work as software developers, security analysts, and web developers. And all those top careers in computer science offer high demand and a strong earning potential. But what if ...

In just two days, Code.org's short film encouraging kids to learn computer programming, has surpassed 5 million YouTube views, and garnered mass interest and participation. Our team tests, rates, and ...

Over the past decade, an explosion of mobile computing has offered new ways for more people to have an impact in their communities. As a result, more people are studying computer science, whether in ...

A St. Louis-based tech nonprofit is training inmates in computer programming while they're still incarcerated to give them a shot at landing jobs in the tech industry and avoid returning to prison.

Expert computer programmers show higher proficiency in certain behavioral and attention skills than their novice peers. To identify the responsible brain regions, scientists used fMRI to analyze the ...