Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Computer Science Department offers some of the best AI courses in the United States. The School of Computer Science offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral courses in various areas of artificial intelligence including Masters and Ph.D. degrees in machine learning and robotics.

CMU is ranked #1 in artificial intelligence by U.S. News and World Report, even ahead of MIT and Stanford. Carnegie Mellon has a rich AI past dating back to the 1950s with Alan Newell and Herbert Simon, two of the early proponents of AI research and widely considered to be inventors of the field itself.

CMU AI is the name given to the university’s collective efforts around developing application-oriented AI systems and technologies. To that end, they introduced AI Stack, which is comprised of blocks, each block containing a specific set of technologies that researchers can draw from. Each block or layer of the AI Stack is inter-related to all the other layers, enabling researchers to focus on a single area of expertise while leveraging the skills and resources of other areas.

The core courses related to artificial intelligence are distributed across various departments within the School of Computer Science (SCS), which are as follows:

Computational Biology Department

Computer Science Department

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Institute for Software Research

Language Technologies Institute

Machine Learning Department

Robotics Institute

The leadership team at CMU AI is an enviable collection of some of the best minds in the industry. All of them are active in the field of AI research, with far-reaching scope that encompasses areas like designing educational games, epidemiological forecasting, computational proteonomics, and the algorithms that run the entire UNOS kidney exchange.

Alumni of the various CMU AI programs now work at top organizations like Google, NASA, Microsoft, etc., as well as impactful startups in AI fields like automation and robotics.

CMU is undoubtedly one of the top AI schools in the United States, and getting a degree from one of their programs will give you the kind of platform you need to go anywhere you choose.

For admission details, please visit their web page here, where you can also review full lists of their undergraduate and graduate courses. For the list of degree courses offered by the School of Computer Science, please visit this page.

The video shared below showcases some of CMU’s most well-known alumni across multiple industries.