When you think of artificial intelligence, you may think of robots or ChatGPT, but AI has become so widespread it’s not only taking over industries but college campuses.

"There is so much going on in the world right now that we felt we had to develop a new degree focused solely on AI," said Erik Johnson, vice dean for academic programs at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, where students will be able to earn a bachelor's of science in AI starting in the fall of 2026.

It’s a joint program between computer science and electrical and computer engineering as well as industrial and systems engineering.

"The BSAI [degree] will dig deeper in new applications of AI, computer vision, natural language processing and other things," Johnson said.

But that’s not

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