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WBUR TODAY: A major trend for undergrads

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  ❤️ Donate Friday, October 23, 2026 ☀️ Sunny, with a high near 55.  Good Morning Boston, It's Friday. We're putting political differences aside this weekend to unite against the common menace known as Liberty Biberty — seriously, someone is planning a protest over the omnipresent yellow fuzzy mascot outside Liberty Mutual's Boston headquarters on Sunday. But first, we'll take on the news: A major trend: Artificial intelligence isn’t just a study tool (or crutch ) for college students. It’s also a growing focus of study itself. As WBUR’s Suevon Lee reports in this new feature,  the number of AI majors within university computer science departments has nearly doubled across the country since last December — from 57 to 107. The numbers come from an interactive database housed at Northeastern University’s Center for Inclusive Computing, which was created in 2025 to keep tabs on the landscape. Why? Suevon reports the growth in AI majors is driven by an awareness among ...