Missouri University of Science and Technology
MO · AI Readiness #159 of 227
AIREDEX™ Score: 5.9 /10
An AI, Machine Learning and Automation in Business minor, open to any major, anchors undergraduate AI access at Missouri S&T, plus free access to The Mill GPU cluster and a campus-wide MinerAI workshop series.
Missouri S&T's Kummer Institute Center for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, directed by Donald Wunsch, anchors the research side and co-sponsors campus events that undergrads can attend. The Mill HPC cluster runs 34 NVIDIA GPUs including H100 nodes, available at no cost to all students via a simple request form. A $300 million gift to the university names AI and autonomous systems as one of four investment pillars, signaling continued institutional commitment to AI infrastructure.
Pillar grades
- Commitment: C+
- Curriculum: C-
- Partnerships: C+
- Research: A
A(I)ttitude™: cautious
Selected Highlights
- MinerAI taskforce has named co-leaders (Dr. Jonathan Kimball, Dr. Jay Park), spans three colleges, and has produced public outputs including a website, seminar calendar, and workshop events within the past 2 years -- meets Q1, Q2, Q3 criteria for full 6 pts.
- $300M Kummer gift explicitly names AI and autonomous systems as one of four investment pillars; falls in $50M-$499M bracket (no AI-specific sub-allocation stated, but AI is a named pillar of the full gift).
- Two named AI hubs confirmed -- Kummer Institute Center for AI and Autonomous Systems (director: Dr. Donald Wunsch) and MinerAI initiative (co-leads: Dr. Kimball, Dr. Park) -- both cross-departmental with active programming.
- Undergraduate minor in AI, Machine Learning and Automation in Business confirmed in catalog since 2018-19; scores as named concentration/track (3 pts) since it is a minor, not a standalone major.
- Undergraduate minor in AI, Machine Learning and Automation in Business is open to students from outside CS and engineering per program description -- full 8 pts.