梳理美国高校AI项目现状,提供可查的工具与课程分析。
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

- 开发工具抓取361个本科AI项目数据,覆盖87%计算机毕业生。
- 超三分之一本科生需修人工智能伦理课,但辅修仅四分之一要求。
- 工具公开可用,适合学生、教师和教育管理者参考决策。
本文在2026年春季对美国本科人工智能(AI)项目进行定位与分析,创建了这一快速变化领域的历史性记录。我们开发了一款工具,从563所四年制大学中检测、抓取并展示361个本科AI项目(包括专业、辅修、方向和证书)的数据,该样本代表2025年美国本科计算机科学毕业生的87%。该工具可在https://cicmap.ai 获取,可供潜在学生、指导顾问、管理人员和教师随时查阅项目要求,并将持续更新以纳入新项目。这是迄今为止最全面的美国高校AI项目快照。本研究贡献包括:1)记录变革时期的美国AI项目状态;2)提供可交互查询的项目工具;3)分析66个AI专业与87个辅修项目的课程要求。结果显示,专业间课程要求差异显著;未设通用人工智能课程的专业均要求机器学习(ML)课程;超过三分之一的专业要求人工智能伦理课,但辅修中仅有24%要求此课程。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
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, available at https://cicmap.ai, searched 563 institutions to locate these programs, a sample that represents 87% of all undergraduate Computer Science (CS) graduates in the U.S in 2025. This tool allows prospective students, guidance counselors, administrators, and faculty to easily access AI program requirements and is designed to continually update as new programs emerge. To the best of our knowledge, this survey represents the most comprehensive snapshot of the state of AI programs in the U.S. to date. With this work we offer three important contributions: 1) a record of AI programs in the U.S. at a time of great upheaval; 2) a tool to explore AI programs and their requirements; and 3) an analysis of the courses required for 66 AI majors and 87 AI minors. Our analysis of majors and minors shows great variability in the size and the requirements of these degrees, but we note two takeaways. First, not all majors require a general AI course, but if they don't, they do require a Machine Learning (ML) course. Second, more than a third of majors require an Ethics in AI course but only 24% of minors do.
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