Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles says the amount of incoming undergraduates indicating they would major in computer science declined by more than 60% between the fall of 2000 and the fall of 2004, and is now 70% lower than it was during its peak in the early 1980s. Interest in computer science among women fell 80% between 1998 and 2004, and 93% since its peak in 1982.