Dalhousie University plans to markedly increase Computer Science enrollment in the coming years with the $13.3 million in funding from the Nova Scotia government, said the university’s President Deep Saini.
In an interview after hosting Premier Iain Rankin at the university, Saini said the Dal Faculty of Computer Science currently awards about 250 graduate degrees each year, and it plans to increase those numbers to 400 in the coming years. It aims to maintain its target of attracting as many female as male students and professors into the computer science faculty.
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