On February 13, the University of Pennsylvania officially announced that the School of Engineering and Applied Science has launched a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in "Artificial Intelligence (AI)". It became the first Ivy League school to offer an undergraduate degree program in AI and one of the earliest AI undergraduate engineering programs in the United States. Nanyang Technological University has established a new School of Computer and Data Science to provide industry-relevant degree courses and train students who can skillfully use AI technology.

So, which American universities currently have the best undergraduate artificial intelligence majors ? Let’s take a look with my little senior sister today!

Carnegie Mellon University

As the top CS school ranked No. 1 by CSRankings , Carnegie Mellon University also deserves to be No. 1 in the USNews AI rankings. CMU is the first university in the United States to establish an undergraduate major in artificial intelligence . Since the official enrollment in the fall of 2018, data released by the school shows that only 30-35 students are admitted to this major every year. It is self-evident that the difficulty of admission is very high. This major is set up in the School of Computer Science. CMU's artificial intelligence bachelor's degree major requires students to major in 6 mathematics and statistics, 5 computer science, 3 artificial intelligence, science and engineering, and humanities and arts courses.

Stanford University

As early as 2019, the school established the School of Artificial Intelligence , which is one of the few schools in the United States that has raised the emphasis on AI to the college level .

In January 2024, Mobile ALOHA, the "robot nanny" launched by the Stanford team, exploded in popularity. This all-round housekeeping robot combines cutting-edge technologies in computer science fields such as artificial intelligence and robotics. It is another manifestation of Stanford's strength in AI . Stanford University's artificial intelligence courses are offered in the Department of Computer Science under the School of Engineering. Its curriculum system can be roughly divided into three parts: The first part is basic computer science courses , such as mathematics and science, technology in society, and engineering foundations. The second part is elective courses , covering artificial intelligence, theory, systems, and man-machine. Interaction, graphics, information, biological computing and other fields are training in deep learning. The third part is project research , students can choose to gradually start a team or conduct targeted research.

MIT

The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is a research institution at MIT , formed in 2003 through the merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab). In 2018, MIT invested one billion dollars to build a new artificial intelligence school - the Schwarzman School of Computing . The establishment of this college provides a strong impetus to promote interdisciplinary research in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science and related fields. The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science under the college has three main departments: Electronic Engineering (EE), Computer Science (CS), and Artificial Intelligence and Decision-making (AI+D) . Integrate AI based on computing tradition and information decision-making development system based on electrical science machine learning to provide undergraduate students with course teaching at the basic stage of artificial intelligence.

UC Berkeley

UCB is also ranked in the top ten in the artificial intelligence rankings of 2024 CS Rankings and has good strength. UCB has six world-class artificial intelligence research institutions, including UCB Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, UCB Information and Systems Science Laboratory, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, CITRIS Human and Robotics, etc. UCB does not have a separate undergraduate major in artificial intelligence , but the school has established an undergraduate research course in artificial intelligence in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Allowing them to better cope with the challenges and opportunities of the AI era.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology is known as the "MIT of the South" and the school's artificial intelligence courses are offered in the School of Computer Science . The college offers three bachelor's degrees, Computer Science (CS), Computational Media (jointly with the School of Literature, Media and Communication and the School of Music), and Computer Engineering (jointly with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering). At the undergraduate level, artificial intelligence focuses on research in application fields , such as common computing, robotics and computational perception, which are the main research directions. Georgia Tech has very strict enrollment requirements for students, and only a handful of students are admitted every year.

University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign

UIUC ranks second all year round in CS Rankings, second only to CMU. UIUC's artificial intelligence-related courses are established in the computer science major under the School of Engineering. It not only provides computer-related courses such as circuits, systems, electromagnetics, and computer systems, but also includes AI courses such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and cybernetics. Among the research fields of this major, artificial intelligence ranks first, which shows that the department has always prioritized AI research.

Cornell University

Cornell University has been conducting research in the field of AI as early as the 1990s . Cornell University's artificial intelligence course is offered in the Computer Science major in the School of Engineering. Computer science majors take courses covering algorithms, data structures, logic, programming languages, systems, and theory. In addition, you need to choose artificial intelligence, computer graphics, computer vision, database and scientific computing as elective courses. This top player in the field of AI launched an artificial intelligence plan at the end of 2021 to promote the development and application of AI across the school and introduce philosophy, ethics and public policy into the framework of AI courses.

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin has designated 2024 as the "Year of Artificial Intelligence . " This university opened its own artificial intelligence laboratory as early as 1983. The school currently has dozens of laboratories and research centers, and it has a position that cannot be ignored in global research in the field of artificial intelligence. Currently, according to official news from the school, the University of Texas at Austin (UT) is establishing one of the most powerful artificial intelligence centers in academia .

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