Indiana University and Purdue make AI courses mandatory

Both universities integrate artificial intelligence courses into their common core to prepare students for a technologically transformed labour market.

As the re-entry began, Indiana University Bloomington and Purdue University announced the inclusion of mandatory artificial intelligence courses in their curricula. At the IU Kelley School of Business, an introductory course ("GenAI 101") and a second more advanced level become permanent components of the program, with the aim of familiarizing all students with the professional uses of general AI before they enter the labour market.

This is in line with a broader movement observed in several American and Asian universities this summer, where AI is moving from option status to the basic skills expected of any graduate, like the National University of Singapore, which has made an IA literacy course compulsory for all its new students.