New AI minor launches for students across disciplines
The minor enables students from disciplines outside computer science to explore and apply AI in their own fields.
In Winter 2026, University of Michigan Engineering established a new minor in artificial intelligence that is open to students across the university. The minor equips students with skills to build custom AI solutions tailored to their disciplines.
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“Our faculty have deep expertise in multiple areas of AI, including machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing (including large language models), and data science,” said Atul Prakash, the Richard H. Orenstein Division Chair of Computer Science and Engineering. “We are glad to provide access to the same courses that our majors take in the AI area to a much broader group of students across the entire university.”
Students majoring in engineering, information, music, pharmacy, business, art & design, and architecture can currently enroll in the minor, and there are plans to include more units in the future.
“I’m working on projects that use data to understand organ health, and AI feels like the tool that will let me push that work further,” said Alex Ahitov, a sophomore in biomedical engineering who is pursuing the AI minor.
AI contributed to this human-edited-summary of the article AI minor at Michigan opens pathways across disciplines by Emily France.