大學生湧向人工智能新專業（1/2）

Recently the New York Times reported the following:

College Students Flock to a New Major: A.I. (1/2)

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major.

The NYT - By Natasha Singer (Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I. education.)

Dec. 1, 2025

Artificial intelligence is the hot new college major.

This semester, more than 3,000 students enrolled in a new college of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

At the University of California, San Diego, 150 first-year students signed up for a new A.I. major. And the State University of New York at Buffalo created a stand-alone “department of A.I. and society,” which is offering new interdisciplinary degrees in fields like “A.I. and policy analysis.”

The fast popularization of products like ChatGPT, along with skyrocketing valuations of tech giants like the chip maker Nvidia, is helping to drive the campus A.I. boom.

Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft have poured billions of dollars into the technology. And this year, Google and Microsoft announced company efforts to train millions of students and adult workers on A.I..

Now interest in understanding, using and learning how to build A.I. technologies is soaring, and schools are racing to meet rising student and industry demand.

Over the last two years, dozens of U.S. universities and colleges have announced new A.I. departments, majors, minors, courses, interdisciplinary concentrations and other programs.

In 2022, for instance, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created a major called “A.I. and decision-making.” Students in the program learn to develop A.I. systems and study how technologies like robots interact with humans and the environment. This year, nearly 330 students are enrolled in the program — making A.I. the second-largest major at M.I.T. after computer science.

“Students who prefer to work with data to address problems find themselves more drawn to an A.I. major,” said Asu Ozdaglar, the deputy dean of academics at the M.I.T. Schwarzman College of Computing. Students interested in applying A.I. in fields like biology and health care are also flocking to the new major, she added.

Some college students said that the new major seemed timely, and that they hoped the A.I. branding would open up more job opportunities.

Leena Banga, a first-year student from Fremont, Calif., said she had become interested in A.I. after trying out chatbots and wanted to understand more about how the underlying technology worked. After participating in an A.I. summer program for high school students at the University of Pennsylvania, she decided to pursue the new major at U.C. San Diego.

“This is so cool to me to have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this,” said Ms. Banga, 18.

Had universities not yet offered new A.I. degrees, Ms. Banga said, she would have chosen computer science — a popular major that teaches computer programming and fundamental computing concepts, like the algorithmic building blocks of A.I.

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大學生湧向人工智能新專業（1/2）

在麻省理工學院，一個名為「人工智能與決策」的新課程如今已成為第二大最受歡迎的本科專業。

人工智能是大學裡炙手可熱的新興專業。

本學期，超過3000名學生在Tampa的南佛羅裡達大學新成立的人工智能與網路安全學院註冊入學。

在加州大學聖地牙哥分校，150名一年級新生報名參加了新的人工智能專業。紐約州立大學Buffalo分校則創建了一個獨立的 “人工智能與社會系” ，該系提供諸如 “人工智能與政策分析” 等領域的跨學科學位。

ChatGPT等產品的快速普及，以及英偉達等晶片製造商等科技巨頭的估值飆升，正在推動校園人工智能的蓬勃發展。 

亞馬遜、谷歌、Meta和微軟已向該技術投入數十億美元。今年，Google和微軟宣布了公司計劃，將對數百萬學生和成年員工進行人工智能培訓。

如今，人們對理解、使用和學習如何建構人工智能技術的興趣與日俱增，各院校也在競相滿足學生和產業日益增長的需求。

過去兩年，數十所美國大學和學院宣佈設立新的人工智能系、主修、副修、課程、跨學科密集和其他課程。

例如，2022年，麻省理工學院開設了「人工智能與決策」專業。該專業的學生將學習開發人工智能系統，並研究機器人等技術如何與人類和環境互動。今年，近330名學生註冊了人工智能專業，使其成為麻省理工學院（MIT）僅次於電腦科學的第二大專業。

麻省理工學院施瓦茨曼計算機學院副院長Asu Ozdaglar表示:「那些喜歡利用數據解決問題的學生更容易被人工智能專業吸引」。她補充說，對將人工智能應用於生物學和醫療保健等領域感興趣的學生也紛紛湧向這個新專業。

一些大學生表示，這個新專業的出現恰逢其時，他們希望人工智能的品牌效應能帶來更多就業機會。

來自加州弗里蒙特的大一新生Leena Banga表示，她在體驗過聊天機器人後對人工智能產生了興趣，並希望更多地了解其底層技術的工作原理。在參加了賓州大學高中生的人工智能暑期計劃後，她決定在加州大學聖地牙哥分校攻讀這個新專業。

18歲的Banga女士說： “能有機會站在人工智能的最前線，我感到無比興奮。”

Banga女士表示，如果大學還沒有開設人工智能專業，她會選擇電腦科學 - 這是一個熱門專業，教授電腦程式設計和基礎運算概念，例如人工智能的演算法建構模組。

（待續）