14 colleges that offer bachelor’s degrees in AI [Video]

The artificial intelligence boom doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon. 

Tech and other industry leaders from Bill Gates to Mark Cuban have embraced the technology and touted its potential to reshape the global economy. Colleges and universities have followed suit, preparing tomorrow’s workforce to use and continue to develop AI tools for a variety of business and life applications. 

Back in 2018, long before ChatGPT gained its current notoriety around college campuses, Carnegie Mellon University began offering the country’s first Bachelor of Science degree in artificial intelligence. 

“Specialists in artificial intelligence have never been more important, in shorter supply or in greater demand by employers,” Andrew Moore, former dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon said in a press release at the time. 

Since then, over a dozen schools throughout the country have developed their own AI degree programs, including the University of Pennsylvania, which became the first Ivy League school to offer an AI-focused degree …