University of Texas at Arlington
TX · AI Readiness #76 of 227
AIREDEX™ Score: 7.8 /10
UT Arlington undergrads can earn a standalone Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence for Business, one of the few undergraduate AI degrees of its kind at a major Texas research university, alongside an AI minor and undergraduate certificate open to all College of Business students.
Those AI degree and certificate options come with real infrastructure: Khanmigo is integrated directly into Canvas for student use, and a new $2.1M supercomputing hub that opened in 2025 gives undergrads access to high-performance computing alongside TACC resources. Governance runs through the President's AI Council, chaired by CIO Deepika Chalemela, with a separate President's AI Task Force translating policy into practice. Industry partnerships include Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, and Johnson and Johnson.
Pillar grades
- Commitment: B
- Curriculum: B
- Partnerships: B
- Research: B+
A(I)ttitude™: progressive
Selected Highlights
- CIO Deepika Chalemela explicitly chairs the President's AI Council, a named university-wide AI governance body -- qualifies for Q2 score of 3.
- President's AI Council has named chair, cross-campus membership across legal, research, IT, analytics, and provost offices, plus a separate President's AI Task Force with documented membership and public outputs including ai.uta.edu policy pages.
- Multiple institutional-level AI policy documents publicly accessible: Guiding Principles for Use of GAI, GenAI Instruction Guidelines, research-specific GAI policy, and the Generative AI Guidelines for Instruction -- covers stated goals, governance commitments, ethical guidelines, and named programs.
- CARIDA (Engineering + Industrial Engineering + Electrical Engineering), SARC (Mathematics + Computer Science + Engineering + USDA), CIHI (health informatics, clinical AI), and Division of Data Science (cross-college) all confirmed as named cross-disciplinary AI centers with named directors.
- BS in Artificial Intelligence for Business confirmed in College of Business -- named undergraduate degree with AI explicitly in title; qualifies as named concentration/track within a college (not a standalone CS AI major), scoring 3.