Wednesday, September 9, 2026

USC and UCLA bet big on AI to meet soaring student, job market demands - Jaweed Kaleem, LA Times

The Viterbi school of engineering at USC is offering a four-year program to prepare students for such fields as drug discovery, robotics and agriculturel  UCLA, USC and other universities are launching new majors to train students either to build AI systems or to use them in the humanities. USC’s AI degree immerses students in model-building aimed at producing industry-ready graduates.The digital humanities department at UCLA uses AI tools to examine disciplines including history, languages and arts.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-27/usc-ucla-ai-majors-degrees-job-demand