From this NY Times article on recruiting Computer majors.
Then there are salaries. Google is paying computer science majors just out of college $90,000 to $105,000, as much as $20,000 more than it was paying a few months ago. That is so far above the industry average of $80,000 that start-ups cannot match Google salaries. Google declined to comment.
Then later:
Colleges rarely teach the newer programming languages like PHP, Ruby and Python, which have become more popular at young Web companies than older ones like Java, he said. Other skills, like working with large amounts of data and analytics, can be acquired only at a few companies. “There are few programs that actually teach those things, and yet that’s the primary people we hire,” Mr. Lee said.
Err, we use Python in my class, also JavaScript, and jQuery, and the app engine, and...