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World innovation
Introducing the world’s most innovative undergraduate AI degree
AI at its core, computer science as its foundation, business as its focus. An elite program producing industry-ready leaders – designed for exceptional individuals with technical and creative talent, ambition, and drive.
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The right choice
We prepare students for the best jobs of tomorrow
Defying traditional academic structures and optimized for industry-readiness, we have engineered the right formula for your future success.
- The right objectives: A ground-up AI degree that blends real-world tech depth with the mindset to iterate, innovate, and lead.
- The right curriculum: AI-first, future-focused, and built to create entrepreneurs – not computer science graduates.
- The right faculty: Top AI academics and proven founders who teach from experience – not theory.
- The right opportunities: Unmatched access to world-leading AI labs, founders, and companies – opening doors to startup creation, funding, and top global graduate programs.
Make the right choice for you
We offer two distinct streams, both with a unique 3+1 model featuring accelerated coursework and an industry co-op in the final year.
Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence
Business
- Suitable for aspiring or current entrepreneurs and future AI-driven leaders ready to transform industries (no coding experience necessary)
- AI for business, strategy, and decision-making
Program structure
Elite exposure
Network while you learn
Enjoy elite exposure to big tech players, AI giants, and our University's leaders.
Meet the team
A world-class mix of leading AI professors and real-world founders, chosen for how well they teach and how deeply they know the industry
Be inspired. Think big. Succeed sooner. Aspire to be like our faculty and instructors from MIT, Cambridge, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Disney, NASA, VisionLabs, and more.
Taryn Southern
Influencer and AI musician Taryn Southern is a world-leader in creating narratives around emerging technologies, for example, brain interfaces and how people can utilize the latest AI tools to generate viral videos at scale.
Alexandr Khanin
Tech entrepreneur and applied AI expert, Alexandr Khanin, sold his first startup, VisionLabs, to Intel for $100 million. He is passionate about ensuring that future AI founders are being mentored and taught by people who have been in their shoes.
Alejandro Amador
Dr. Alejandro Amador brings his love of AI, computer graphics, and cats to teach maths and physics in an easy and accessible way. Well-loved by his students, Amador uses machine learning to undertake physics simulations at CERN and builds next-gen creative tools for Adobe.
Get to know MBZUAI
Why Abu Dhabi
Live where you learn. Become part of the MBZUAI community
Ranked top 10 globally in AI (CSRankings)
High performance computing
Cutting-edge incubation center
Top-class sporting facilities
Not a typical bachelor's degree
A global tech hub
A pioneering, top ranked, global institution
We are builders
A welcoming, multicultural community
Scholarships
Full scholarships for ambitious students
The Tahnoon bin Zayed Scholarship in AI Excellence is open to prospective undergraduate students from the UAE and around the world.
This merit-based scholarship aims to provide for approximately 350 outstanding undergraduate students over a span of six years - reinforcing the University's role as a global destination for specialized education in AI.
Applicants are eligible for nomination once they have fulfilled all admission requirements and secured full-time enrollment.
Full scholarship and tuition information can be found under the ‘Undergraduate admission process'.