{"id":194904,"date":"2026-03-11T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/northwestern-university-to-offer-artificial-intelligence-major\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:00:43","slug":"northwestern-university-to-offer-artificial-intelligence-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/northwestern-university-to-offer-artificial-intelligence-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwestern University to offer artificial intelligence major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/03\/11\/northwestern-to-offer-artificial-intelligence-major-next-academic-year\/\">Northwestern University to offer artificial intelligence major<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/03\/11\/northwestern-to-offer-artificial-intelligence-major-next-academic-year\/\">https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/03\/11\/northwestern-to-offer-artificial-intelligence-major-next-academic-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-11 14:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.chicagotribune.com\">www.chicagotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Northwestern University will introduce an artificial intelligence major in the Department of Computer Science at its McCormick School of Engineering starting with the 2026-27 academic year.<\/li>\n<li>The new AI major aims to prepare students for high-demand careers in technology, healthcare, government, and other sectors requiring specialized AI expertise.<\/li>\n<li>The program will emphasize programming proficiency, understanding AI paradigms, and the human and societal impacts of AI.<\/li>\n<li>The curriculum will explore AI\u2019s intersections with legal, societal, and ethical dimensions.<\/li>\n<li>Similar to other universities like Carnegie Mellon, University of Pennsylvania, and the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern follows the growing trend of offering a bachelor\u2019s degree in AI.<\/li>\n<li>The AI major is available to all Northwestern undergraduate students as a new major, a change in major, and students can also pursue a dual degree in AI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwestern University to offer artificial intelligence major https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/03\/11\/northwestern-to-offer-artificial-intelligence-major-next-academic-year\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-11 14:52:00 Source Domain: www.chicagotribune.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CTC-L-northwestern-campus14_225227988.jpg?w=1024&h=659","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-194904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194906,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194904\/revisions\/194906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}