{"id":11386,"date":"2025-10-18T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/11386\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:10:16","slug":"uc-san-diego-joins-rising-tide-of-schools-offering-bachelors-degrees-in-ai-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/11386\/","title":{"rendered":"UC San Diego joins rising tide of schools offering bachelor\u2019s degrees in AI \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the lead of other schools, UC San Diego has created an undergraduate degree program in artificial intelligence, a rapidly developing field that could affect everything from drug discovery to the operation of driverless buses.<\/p>\n<p>The program began in September with more than 200 students, a number the university says will rise to 1,000 by 2029. UCSD will focus on teaching students to build next-generation AI systems and to deal with ethical questions that arise from the use of AI.<\/p>\n<p>UCSD has been a leader in computer science since the 1970s, attracting researchers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2018\/09\/09\/ken-bowles-the-uc-san-diego-software-engineer-who-helped-popularize-personal-computers-dies-at-89\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Bowles<\/a>, who helped popularize personal computers, benefiting such entrepreneurs as Steve Jobs, the late head of Apple.<\/p>\n<p>But many other top universities have been faster to introduce undergraduate programs in AI, including Carnegie Mellon, Penn and Purdue University.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego State University recently created an undergraduate program in AI that will begin operating next year.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the lead of other schools, UC San Diego has created an undergraduate degree program in artificial intelligence,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,15,930,5184,6804,181,23,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":{"0":"post-11386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-la-jolla","11":"tag-la-jolla-light","12":"tag-la-jolla-light-news","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-san-diego-county","18":"tag-san-diego-headlines","19":"tag-san-diego-news","20":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}