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From AI Experimentation to Enterprise Transformation: The Leadership Decisions That Matter
Artificial intelligence is prompting organizations to rethink how work gets done. Significant experimentation is already underway across industries, changing how software is developed, how research and analysis are conducted, and how organizations make decisions and deliver value. The larger leadership challenge is not simply adopting new tools. It is understanding how... More
Lifelong Learning Is Now a Career Strategy – Here’s How to Choose Your Next Credential
Not long ago, education followed a fairly predictable path: earn a degree, begin a career, and rely on experience to advance over the next several decades. While professionals have always continued learning on the job, formal education was often viewed as something completed early in life. Today, that model is changing. More
Why Data Science Matters in the Age of AI
Data science matters more in the age of AI, not less. Every AI system rests on choices made long before anyone types a prompt: what data was collected, how it was prepared, what the model learned from it, and whether anyone can tell if the result holds. Those are data science... More
Your Cohort Is Part of the Learning Experience: Inside BU’s Online MS Programs
When prospective students evaluate a graduate program, they often begin with the curriculum, faculty, flexibility, and cost. Those are critically important considerations. But for working professionals, another element shapes the experience: the people you learn alongside. Across Boston University's online AI graduate programs, students learn in cohorts designed to bring together... More
Teaching a Field That’s Still Being Invented: Inside BU’s Online Master’s in Software Engineering for AI
Software engineering has been called a young discipline for almost fifty years. The version now forming around artificial intelligence is younger still, so new, says Mohamad Kassab, that "many of the terms have not been coined yet." Kassab is Program Director of Boston University's online Master of Science in Software... More
Is an Online MPH Worth It? Career Value, Flexibility, and Employer Tuition Support
For working professionals, the return on an MPH includes more than a salary. Career scope, continued employment while studying, and available tuition benefits all affect the calculation. A master's degree is a significant investment of time and money, which is exactly why so many people ask whether an online MPH is... More
The Social Compiler: How BU’s Online MBA Builds Real Bonds in a Virtual Classroom
At a recent commencement for Boston University's Online MBA, around 350 graduates gathered in person after spending much of the program learning together online. By the end of the ceremony, more than 300 were in tears. One graduate spoke about losing family members while completing the program and about what her... More
What If the Robot Lies? Why BU’s Online AI Degrees Teach Foundations, Not Just Tools
AI systems can produce persuasive answers that are incomplete, misleading, or wrong. Boston University faculty member Jeffrey Considine explains why professionals need to understand how these systems work before trusting what they say. When AI tells us what we want to hear What happens when an AI system gives a confident answer... More
AI Skills Gap: What Industries Are Hiring AI Talent in 2026
The hardest part of the AI boom is no longer building the technology. It is finding people who can put it to work. Across nearly every sector, demand for AI talent is running well ahead of supply, and the gap is reshaping who gets hired, what they are paid, and... More
From One Patient to Whole Populations: How an Online MPH Expanded a Physician’s Perspective
A desire to create greater impact led physician John Gamba to Boston University's Online MPH program. The experience transformed how he approaches healthcare, health equity, and decision-making. As a physician, John Gamba was trained to focus on the patient in front of him. But after years of working in medicine and... More