Tech majors are booming, but rural students stuck in the digital divide ...Middle East

Colleges are seeing a surge in technology majors, but rural students are lagging behind on opportunities to take advantage of the growing, high-paying fields.  From 2018 to 2022, “Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services” majors increased 23 percent, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, from 423,315 to 518,844. Rural students, however, face two pressing issues: the digital divide of internet reliability and technology access and education opportunities.  The National Center for Education Statistics said that in 2019, around 76 percent of rural students had fixed broadband internet access at home, lower than those in towns at 79 percent,

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