Tulane University of Louisiana
LA · AI Readiness #63 of 227
AIREDEX™ Score: 8.1 /10
Tulane launched an AI Minor and a cross-school AI Literacy Minor in 2025, giving undergraduates from liberal arts, business, and engineering a structured path to build real AI skills without needing a computer science background.
Tulane's Freeman School undergrads can stack a Business Analytics and AI Certificate on their degree, while the CAIDS AI Innovation Internship places students directly on faculty research teams building working AI prototypes. Named courses like PHIL 3080: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and the cross-listed Tech Ethics bring ethical reasoning into the mix across schools. Tulane's research profile got a major boost in 2024 when President Biden visited campus to announce up to $22.9 million in federal funding for MAGIC-SCAN, an AI-powered cancer-imaging system led by biomedical engineering professor Quincy Brown.
Pillar grades
- Commitment: B
- Curriculum: A
- Partnerships: C+
- Research: B
A(I)ttitude™: Progressive
Selected Highlights
- VP Piedemonte co-chairs University Committee on GenAI in Research.
- Two provost-convened committees, public report produced.
- Jurist Center + CEAI, Dir. Aron Culotta.
- AI Minor + AI Literacy Minor.
- W.A.V.E. + AI Mastery Workshop Series.