ACM NDC study

16 acm Inroads 2015 September • Vol.6 • No. 3 In the winter/spring of 2015, ACM conducted the third annual ACM-NDC Study (a survey of “Non-Doctoral-Granting Departments in Computing”), intended to be an annual complement to the Computing Research Association (CRA) Taulbee Survey of Ph.D.-granting departments in computing [5]. ACM-NDC is funded by ACM (with generous support in the past from Google), and continues to be conducted with support from the CRA, AIS [1], and ACM SIGITE [2]. The survey comprises recent degrees, enrollments, faculty demographics and faculty salaries and includes gender and ethnic diversity characteristics of the faculty and of the students in the computing programs. The NDC Steering Committee comprises the authors of this article. As an annual study, NDC helps fill in gaps in data on non-Taulbee programs to present a more complete view of the academic landscape in computing and expand pipeline information on programs that produce candidates for Ph.D. programs as well as the private and public labor markets. The timely reporting of the survey’s results provides the community with an early look at workforce-related facts and trends of importance to academic programs and those who rely on them. This article reports the results of the NDC survey, with comparisons and contrasts to data reported in the Taulbee Survey and, as appropriate, last year’s NDC survey results. ACM NDC Study:

[1]  Gordon B. Davis,et al.  AIS , 1998, DATB.