Marketplace Tech · Thursday, July 30, 2026
The University of Southern California is investing $200 million in its new Stephen School for Computing and Artificial Intelligence, aiming to embed AI across campus and offer new AI majors and minors for both STEM and non-STEM students. The school's leader, Gorav Sukatme, emphasizes the need for higher education to adapt quickly to technological advancements, particularly through project-driven curricula that can rapidly incorporate new topics and courses.
“The new Stephen School for Computing and Artificial Intelligence is pushing to embed the technology across the campus.”
“We have a very project-driven curriculum, which allows us to refresh the projects that the students do as part of their degree programs, and we keep changing those projects and updating them.”
“So as new topics are born and created, new elective courses spring up much faster than in a more traditional curriculum.”