Articles & Commentary
Articles & Commentary
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
Building and Deploying AI Systems: What Software Engineers Need to Know
A model that runs in a notebook is not a system. It is a promising start. The distance between a trained model and a reliable, secure, production-grade application is where most AI projects stall, and it is exactly the distance that defines modern engineering work. Building and deploying AI systems... More
Computer Science & AI: AI Runs on Infrastructure – Someone Has to Build It.
Most people do not spend much time thinking about the electrical grid. It is only when the lights go out that we remember how much of modern life depends on it. Artificial Intelligence works much the same way. The public sees the chatbots, copilots, and AI agents. What they rarely see... More
5 Questions Every International Student Asks About an Online U.S. Degree
Choosing where and how to earn a graduate degree is a big decision, and doing it from another country adds a few practical questions to the list. If you are considering an online degree from a U.S. university as an international students, here are clear, straightforward answers to the five... More
AI Literacy for Educators: What Teachers Need to Know in 2026
If you have ever closed your laptop after another headline about AI in the classroom and felt a quiet knot of doubt, you should know two things. You are not behind, and you are not alone. AI literacy for educators has quickly become the phrase everyone uses and almost no... More
When Technology Advances So Fast, Is Humanity Catching Up?
As technology continues to advance at extraordinary speed, a fundamental question remains: are our ethics, institutions, and collective judgment evolving quickly enough to keep pace? Philosophy has long grappled with exactly these kinds of questions. Many disciplines that help us understand the human mind and behavior - including psychology, cognitive... More
How to Ask Your Employer to Pay for Grad School
If you've been thinking about a master's degree, here is something worth knowing: there is a real chance your employer will help pay for it. The bigger question is not whether the money exists. It is whether you are willing to ask for it. This is the part most people get... More
BU COM Professor Wins Andrew Carnegie Fellowship
Boston University College of Communication Professor Ayse Lokmanoglu won the prestigious fellowship this past week, becoming one of 24 in the 2026 cohort. What will Lokmanglu’s research focus on? As an emerging media studies professor in the College of Communication, Lokmanoglu’s work focuses on how we think about the internet, particularly images, More
Why Business Leaders Need AI Fluency, Not Just AI Tools
Most managers can use AI. Very few can lead with it. That's the gap that's about to define the next decade of business careers — and it's wider than most leaders realize. McKinsey's 2025 Superagency in the Workplace report found that 92% of companies plan to increase AI spending in the... More
Digital Communication Strategy: The Skills Modern Leaders Need
The job of a communications leader looked very different five years ago. The channels were the same — paid, earned, shared, owned — but the speed, the scale, and the tools weren't. Today, generative AI is writing first drafts, predictive models are choosing audiences, and 23% of ads at the... More
The Online MPH for Career Changers: How BU Built a Program for Journalists, Nurses, and Chefs
Before Vivian Muzyk became a graduate student in public health, she was a journalist. She earned a master's in journalism from the University of Georgia, started her career as a writer and editor at Southern Living, and spent years in nonprofit communications — including as director of communications at the... More
How to Choose the Right Master’s in AI for a Business Career
Search for a master's in AI right now and you'll get three very different degrees in the same list: deep technical programs for engineers, data science degrees built around statistics and modeling, and a newer category aimed at the professionals making AI work inside organizations. They may look adjacent on... More
What Is an AI Software Engineer? Role, Skills, and Career Path
An AI software engineer is a specialized developer who designs, builds, and deploys applications powered by machine learning, artificial intelligence, and generative AI. The key difference between traditional software engineers and AI software engineers lies in how they build applications. While software engineers rely on explicit logic and predefined code... More
What Is MLOps? A Beginner’s Guide for Software Engineers
MLOps, or machine learning operations, is a set of practices that functions as an assembly line for building, deploying, and running machine learning (ML) models at scale. By fostering collaboration between data scientists, software engineers, and IT teams, MLOps enables organizations to automate machine learning workflows and deploy ML models... More
Software Development Is Changing – Are You Ready for AI?
Software development is undergoing one of the most significant shifts in its history. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool developers use—it is becoming embedded in how software is built, deployed, and even how it behaves in production. On April 24, Professor Ed Solovey (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and collaborator... More
Strategic Communication in the Age of AI: Explore Skills and Career Pathways
Boston University’s Online MS in Strategic Communication Communication leaders today sit at the intersection of strategy, technology, and trust. A single product launch now spans paid, earned, shared, and owned channels simultaneously. A crisis can escalate from a Slack screenshot to a board-level issue in hours. And AI is rewriting the... More