This is an article written for The Seattle Times by Edward D. Lazowska, an alumnus of McMaster University; here is one excerpt, and see below for the rest of the article:
… nationwide there is a well-documented shortage of graduates in computer science. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that 70 percent of all new jobs across all STEM fields during this decade, across engineering, the physical sciences, the life sciences, and the social sciences, will be in computer science. More than three-quarters of a million new jobs. The field is booming.