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Five years ago, dedicated bachelor’s programs in artificial intelligence barely existed. The first AI undergraduate degree in the United States launched in 2018 at Carnegie Mellon, and online versions did not appear until 2022. The category has grown rapidly since then. As of 2026, there are roughly 200 bachelor’s...

If you have been laid off recently, the financial calculus around going back to school looks dramatically different than it does for working adults. Your income has dropped, sometimes to zero. Your timeline is bounded by unemployment insurance, severance, and savings. And the federal financial aid system, which is...

If you are caring for an aging parent, a spouse with a serious illness, a child with a disability, or another family member who depends on you, the question of whether to pursue a college degree probably feels different than it does for the typical adult learner. Your schedule...

If you are considering an online bachelor’s in information technology, the first decision is not which school to pick. It is whether IT is the right degree for you in the first place. Information technology and computer science are often discussed as if they are the same field. They...

If your employer offers tuition assistance through InStride, you have access to a curated network of accredited universities, with tuition flowing directly from your employer to the school in most cases. The decision that determines whether your benefit pays off is which school you pick from inside the network....

Intermountain Health offers one of the more flexible employer tuition benefit structures in the U.S. healthcare sector, with two distinct paths to using the same $5,250 annual education benefit. Caregivers can choose traditional tuition reimbursement at any accredited school, or they can use the PEAK program (Path to Education,...

Adidas employees in the United States have access to one of the more interesting employer education benefits in the country, structured around a single anchor university and delivered with a feature that very few comparable programs offer: a direct tuition discount that stacks on top of the employer payment....

If your employer offers tuition assistance through Guild, you have access to one of the most generous education benefit ecosystems in the country: more than 1,600 programs across a network of accredited universities, with tuition flowing directly from your employer to the school in most cases. The decision that...