The best nine AI schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.amazon.science/news/amazon-launches-68-million-ai-phd-fellowship-program
Amazon is announcing its new AI PhD Fellowship program, which will provide two years of funding for more than 100 PhD students at nine universities who are pursuing research on core AI disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing.

These are the best AI schools in the country:
MIT
Stanford
CMU
UCB
UIUC
UT
UCLA
UW
JHU

lol how this OP came up with these rankings as "best".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.amazon.science/news/amazon-launches-68-million-ai-phd-fellowship-program
Amazon is announcing its new AI PhD Fellowship program, which will provide two years of funding for more than 100 PhD students at nine universities who are pursuing research on core AI disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing.

These are the best AI schools in the country:
MIT
Stanford
CMU
UCB
UIUC
UT
UCLA
UW
JHU

I don't understand how you are coming to that conclusion. Amazon is certainly not the leader in developing AI, so how do you arrive at the conclusion because Amazon is partnering with these schools. These schools were existing Amazon partners on other initiatives, and I am sure have excellent programs...but all the big tech companies have PhD fellowship programs and have a much wider list of schools.

Take a look at how many jobs Amazon has eliminated (14k this month alone). It looks like their partners are highly effective in doing what they do and helping Amazon achieve its goal.

Amazon is using AI created by companies like Anthropic, Open AI et al to achieve their goals.

That’s the equivalent of saying look at all the secretaries that we reduced when we started using Microsoft Word. They are building on tools created by others, not creating the underlying technology itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and CMU. That’s really all that you need to understand who is developing the AI space.

As always...everyone can only think in terms of the US.

University of Toronto essentially created what everyone considers AI. Professor there is considered the father of AI and started Google Brain and the lead scientist who created the LLM that was the basis of Open AI (and started his own company and is massively influential) graduated from Toronto.

Safety school. Can you start a safety school thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.amazon.science/news/amazon-launches-68-million-ai-phd-fellowship-program
Amazon is announcing its new AI PhD Fellowship program, which will provide two years of funding for more than 100 PhD students at nine universities who are pursuing research on core AI disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing.

These are the best AI schools in the country:
MIT
Stanford
CMU
UCB
UIUC
UT
UCLA
UW
JHU

AI machines have decided to get rid of top 10 lists. #9, watch out: you’re next.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2026 US News Top AI Undergraduate Programs

1 Carnegie Mellon University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 Stanford University
4 University of California--Berkeley
5 Georgia Institute of Technology
6 University of Illinois -UC
7 University of Texas--Austin
7 University of Washington
9 Cornell University
10 Cal Tech
11 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
12 Columbia University

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-science/artificial-intelligence?myCollege=computer-science&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

There were only 12 schools ranked on this list. Not sure why you just stopped at 10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2026 US News Top AI Undergraduate Programs

1 Carnegie Mellon University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 Stanford University
4 University of California--Berkeley
5 Georgia Institute of Technology
6 University of Illinois -UC
7 University of Texas--Austin
7 University of Washington
9 Cornell University
10 Cal Tech
11 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
12 Columbia University

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-science/artificial-intelligence?myCollege=computer-science&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

There were only 12 schools ranked on this list. Not sure why you just stopped at 10.

Turn it up to 11!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2026 US News Top AI Undergraduate Programs

1 Carnegie Mellon University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 Stanford University
4 University of California--Berkeley
5 Georgia Institute of Technology
6 University of Illinois -UC
7 University of Texas--Austin
7 University of Washington
9 Cornell University
10 Cal Tech

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-science/artificial-intelligence?myCollege=computer-science&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

What did they do in AI space?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2026 US News Top AI Undergraduate Programs

1 Carnegie Mellon University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 Stanford University
4 University of California--Berkeley
5 Georgia Institute of Technology
6 University of Illinois -UC
7 University of Texas--Austin
7 University of Washington
9 Cornell University
10 Cal Tech
11 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
12 Columbia University

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-science/artificial-intelligence?myCollege=computer-science&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

There were only 12 schools ranked on this list. Not sure why you just stopped at 10.

Because it didn't matter after 10. Sorry it hurt your feelings. Go Blue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2026 US News Top AI Undergraduate Programs

1 Carnegie Mellon University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 Stanford University
4 University of California--Berkeley
5 Georgia Institute of Technology
6 University of Illinois -UC
7 University of Texas--Austin
7 University of Washington
9 Cornell University
10 Cal Tech

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-science/artificial-intelligence?myCollege=computer-science&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

What did they do in AI space?

You should call those departments at those schools and ask them. I'm sure they would be happy to provide that information. Obviously, enough to be at the Top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2026 US News Top AI Undergraduate Programs

1 Carnegie Mellon University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 Stanford University
4 University of California--Berkeley
5 Georgia Institute of Technology
6 University of Illinois -UC
7 University of Texas--Austin
7 University of Washington
9 Cornell University
10 Cal Tech
11 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
12 Columbia University

Probably becaue this board is infatuated with "T10" when it comes to US News rankings.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-science/artificial-intelligence?myCollege=computer-science&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

There were only 12 schools ranked on this list. Not sure why you just stopped at 10.

Probably because this board is infatuated with "T10" when it comes to US News rankings. If you are 11 on up, you are not "T10" but "T20". Major distinction. You don't read this board enough.

[Anonymous]

What seems to be getting lost here is that OP shared a post about PhD Fellowships funded by Amazon. Amazon chose 9 schools that are known to be leaders in AI research; PhD students at these schools are eligible for these fellowships. AWS is fielding a lot of research and partnerships with academia.

This is not an undergraduate college ranking. But if you're looking for schools with excellent AI research, these are widely known to be at the top of the pack.

It's good to see private industry helping to fund academic research, especially given the uncertainty of government funding right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and CMU. That’s really all that you need to understand who is developing the AI space.

As always...everyone can only think in terms of the US.

University of Toronto essentially created what everyone considers AI. Professor there is considered the father of AI and started Google Brain and the lead scientist who created the LLM that was the basis of Open AI (and started his own company and is massively influential) graduated from Toronto.

Safety school. Can you start a safety school thread?

I don't follow.

It's one of the top 5 universities in the world for AI, and was the source of most of the foundational research on the topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2026 US News Top AI Undergraduate Programs

1 Carnegie Mellon University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 Stanford University
4 University of California--Berkeley
5 Georgia Institute of Technology
6 University of Illinois -UC
7 University of Texas--Austin
7 University of Washington
9 Cornell University
10 Cal Tech

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-science/artificial-intelligence?myCollege=computer-science&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc

What did they do in AI space?

You should call those departments at those schools and ask them. I'm sure they would be happy to provide that information. Obviously, enough to be at the Top.

So you don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What seems to be getting lost here is that OP shared a post about PhD Fellowships funded by Amazon. Amazon chose 9 schools that are known to be leaders in AI research; PhD students at these schools are eligible for these fellowships. AWS is fielding a lot of research and partnerships with academia.

This is not an undergraduate college ranking. But if you're looking for schools with excellent AI research, these are widely known to be at the top of the pack.

It's good to see private industry helping to fund academic research, especially given the uncertainty of government funding right now.

lol. No, it's not lost. He used Amazon to rank the Best AI programs in the country. It's a very narrow item and Complete BS and is no indication as to the programs to be "at the top of the pack" as you describe it.

[Anonymous]

Please, please don't use US News for this type of niche ranking. Look to where the AI companies most recruit from; that largely tracks with CSrankings.