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

The difficulty with all nine schools listed by OP is the extreme percentage of Asian students at each.

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

Name a ground breaking result from each of these four?

As in research or a product? AI is dominated by the alum of these schools. This isn't controversial.

Research.
A lot of ground breaking results are done by tech immigrants, e.g., from Europe.

Europe? You mean India?

Open AI early stage team, google attention is all you need, etc. have more European tech immigrants.

AI only
# Institution Count Faculty
1 ► Carnegie Mellon University United States closed chart 80.7 58
2 ► Georgia Institute of Technology United States closed chart 47.5 43
3 ► Arizona State University United States closed chart 46.2 34
4 ► University of Maryland - College Park United States closed chart 45.7 27
5 ► University of Virginia United States closed chart 42.6 31
6 ► Harvard University United States closed chart 36.9 15
7 ► Northeastern University United States closed chart 35.7 27
8 ► Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States closed chart 35.5 26
9 ► Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States closed chart 35.4 38
10 ► Cornell University United States closed chart 33.5 28
11 ► Rutgers University United States closed chart 33.4 21
12 ► Univ. of California - Los Angeles United States closed chart 32.2 19
13 ► University of Massachusetts Amherst United States closed chart 32.1 20
14 ► Washington University in St. Louis United States closed chart 31.9 12
15 ► Pennsylvania State University United States closed chart 31.7 24
16 ► University of Illinois at Chicago United States closed chart 31.0 20
17 ► University of Texas at Austin United States closed chart 30.3 20
18 ► University of Texas at Dallas United States closed chart 30.1 16
19 ► University of Michigan United States closed chart 29.5 27
20 ► Northwestern University United States closed chart 28.7 18
20 ► University of Southern California United States closed chart 28.7 32

https://csrankings.org/#/index?ai&us

I found UVA. Now I know this is a crap ranking

Where is UVA?

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Anonymous wrote:

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

Name a ground breaking result from each of these four?

As in research or a product? AI is dominated by the alum of these schools. This isn't controversial.

Research.
A lot of ground breaking results are done by tech immigrants, e.g., from Europe.

Europe? You mean India?

Anonymous wrote:JHU and UCLA? You’re kidding.

you dumb? JHU is renowned for Machine Learning and Cybersecurity

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Anonymous wrote:

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

Name a ground breaking result from each of these four?

As in research or a product? AI is dominated by the alum of these schools. This isn't controversial.

Research.
A lot of ground breaking results are done by tech immigrants, e.g., from Europe.

Anonymous wrote:

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

Name a ground breaking result from each of these four?

As in research or a product? AI is dominated by the alum of these schools. This isn't controversial.

Anonymous wrote:Here's the better actual ranking, AI T20

https://csrankings.org/#/index?ai&vision&mlmining&nlp&inforet&us

1. Carnegie Mellon University
2. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3. University of Maryland - College Park
4. Cornell University
5. Univ. of California - San Diego
6. Stanford University
7. Georgia Institute of Technology
8. University of Michigan
9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10. Univ. of California - Berkeley
11. Univ. of California - Los Angeles
12. New York University
13. University of Massachusetts Amherst
14. University of Washington
15. University of Southern California
16. Johns Hopkins University
17. Northeastern University
18. University of Texas at Austin
19. University of Pennsylvania
20. Columbia University

Dumb question, how come Harvard never comes up on these lists? Is it because they aren't involved in this particular field?

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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

PhD...Thats a lot of schooling for the typical CS major!

You can't get various jobs in AI or in the software industry in general if you don't have a PhD. There just happens to be a lot of jobs.

Anonymous wrote:Here's the better actual ranking, AI T20

https://csrankings.org/#/index?ai&vision&mlmining&nlp&inforet&us

1. Carnegie Mellon University
2. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3. University of Maryland - College Park
4. Cornell University
5. Univ. of California - San Diego
6. Stanford University
7. Georgia Institute of Technology
8. University of Michigan
9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10. Univ. of California - Berkeley
11. Univ. of California - Los Angeles
12. New York University
13. University of Massachusetts Amherst
14. University of Washington
15. University of Southern California
16. Johns Hopkins University
17. Northeastern University
18. University of Texas at Austin
19. University of Pennsylvania
20. Columbia University

This ranking is legitimate. UMD is known in the industry. Not sure where OP got the best AI colleges from a PhD fellowship program run by Amazon. Nonsense.

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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

PhD...Thats a lot of schooling for the typical CS major!

Seriously. Talk about over-educating someone.

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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.