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Master of Professional Studies in Applied AI
Virtually every industry and organization will be impacted by AI in the next five years. Here’s your opportunity to go from following AI to leading it. Northeastern University’s online Master of Professional Studies in Applied AI program gives you the flexibility to up your professional game from wherever you are and from any background. You’ll engage in the same rigorous curriculum as our on-campus program.
As an online student, you’ll gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to put the power of AI to work in any field—engaging in a forward-thinking curriculum focused on collaborative learning, interdisciplinary innovation, and ethical AI implementation. You’ll learn to build and implement AI and machine learning (ML) technologies, and you can specialize your degree with a choice of concentrations in conversational AI and chatbots, machine learning for cybersecurity, or 3D imaging.
Northeastern welcomes students from all backgrounds—our Connect program provides a starting foundation of skill-building courses before you begin master’s coursework with your peers.
You can earn your degree with a choice of part- or full-time options and the ability to stack credentials on the way to your degree.
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College of Professional Studies
The College of Professional Studies (CPS) empowers learners with the knowledge, network, and experience to transform their futures. CPS offers over 90 programs, from bachelor’s completion to doctorate degrees, including certificates and badges to meet evolving workplace needs. With most faculty actively working as industry leaders, CPS provides access to the latest trends and a robust professional network. Nearly 1,000 teaching faculty bring real-world challenges into the classroom, ensuring programs remain relevant. As business and industry rapidly evolve alongside technological advancements, CPS is committed to leading that mission.
Experience-powered learning
The program offers opportunities to practice what you learn with Experiential Network (XN) projects with leading businesses worldwide, such as Google, Deloitte, Samsung, Uber, and more, where you’ll solve real business challenges. An optional co-op assignment through our top-ranked program also helps you gain functional expertise and demonstrate to employers that you have the technical, creative, and leadership skills to succeed.
About Northeastern
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 320,000-plus alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.