| Compared to what? Generally, the traditional university model has been adding "<insert job title> program" for a long time, whether or not they have a useful curriculum to put students through. There are office management and msft liscencing degrees. The most popular degree (at least where I live) for both undergraduate and graduates are various generic "business degrees." In practice, universities have curriculums for accounting, finance and ecocomics. There is no curriculum for social media or digital growth hacking. There are job titles. There are students who want to enroll. Employers are asking for these graduates (in theory, graf salaries for these are low). Politicians are willing to fund them... Does a bachelors of social media businessing serve a student 10, 20, 30 years later? So, will these ml/ai these programs really produce better graduates than maths, statistics or CS programs? Dunno. I'll wager that they're a whole lot better than business stuff degrees. I'd actually wager that MIT will put students through decent statistics classes. Hopefully they'll also have them write a decent amount of code too. |