This fall, hundreds of thousands of students will get free access to ChatGPT , thanks to a licensing agreement between their school or university and the chatbot's maker, OpenAI .

When the partnerships in higher education became public earlier this year, they were lauded as a way for universities to help their students familiarize themselves with an AI tool that experts say will define their future careers .

At California State University (CSU), a system of 23 campuses with 460,000 students, administrators were eager to team up with OpenAI for the 2025-2026 school year. Their deal provides students and faculty access to a variety of OpenAI tools and models, making it the largest deployment of ChatGPT for Education , or ChatGPT Edu, in the country.

But the overall enthu

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