{"id":156293,"date":"2023-01-26T13:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/ai-masters-program-launches-with-ability-to-serve-thousands"},"modified":"2023-01-26T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T19:22:23","slug":"ai-masters-program-launches-with-ability-to-serve-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/ai-masters-program-launches-with-ability-to-serve-thousands","title":{"rendered":"AI Master\u2019s Program Launches With Ability to Serve Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-masters-program-launches-with-ability-to-serve-thousands.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Just as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning emerge as the fastest-growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2023\/01\/skills-jobs-future-workplace\/\">in-demand skill sets<\/a> in the global workforce, The University of Texas at Austin is establishing a new online master\u2019s program in AI with the potential to bring thousands of new students into the field.<\/p>\n<p>Delivered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/\">Department of Computer Science<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ml.utexas.edu\">Machine Learning Laboratory<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cdso.utexas.edu\/msai\">Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence<\/a> (MSAI) will be the first large-scale degree program of its kind and the only master\u2019s degree program in AI from a top-ranked institution to be priced close to $10,000. The master\u2019s degree covers about two years\u2019 worth of course content, to be taken at the learner\u2019s own pace, and will be delivered in partnership with online education platform, edX.<\/p>\n<p>AI master\u2019s programs from peer institutions carry costs five to 10 times as high as UT Austin\u2019s and serve only dozens of students \u2013 not the hundreds or thousands the Texas team projects it will reach annually within five years. Similarly priced online master\u2019s programs from the university, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/graduate-program\/masters-program\/online-option\">computer science<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ms-datascience.utexas.edu\/\">data science<\/a>, enroll 2,500 students within less than five years of their launch. Like those programs, the fully online MSAI program is both flexible and accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Just as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning emerge as the fastest-growing in-demand skill sets in the global workforce, The University of Texas at Austin is establishing a new online master\u2019s program in AI with the potential to bring thousands of new students into the field. Delivered by the Department of Computer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}