A university just did something most companies still haven't figured out.
It made AI training mandatory.
Not optional. Not a weekend workshop. Not a "if you're interested, sign up here" email nobody opens.
Baked. Into. The. Degree.
NMIMS just launched a university-wide initiative called NMIMS Horizon — in partnership with Coursera.
The scale is what makes you pause.
👉 40,000 students. Across every NMIMS campus. All getting access to global AI learning pathways.
And here's the kicker — it's fully funded by the university.
Zero extra cost to students. No hidden "premium tier." No upsell.
Students don't just get a login and a "good luck".
They get curated Coursera pathways covering:
All stitched into the academic curriculum itself — not sitting on the side as a "nice-to-have."
Complete the degree = complete the AI training. There's no escape hatch.
Coursera's own 2026 Job Skills Report just revealed something wild:
Generative AI is now the most in-demand skill in Coursera's entire history — with roughly 14 GenAI enrollments per minute worldwide.
And a separate Coursera study found 95% of students and educators are already using AI on campus… but only a quarter of institutions have any formal strategy for it.
That gap? That's exactly what NMIMS just tried to close.
For decades, the deal was simple.
You pay tuition. University gives you a degree. You go figure out the "real world skills" on YouTube at 2am.
That model is quietly dying.
Because here's the truth Prof. Chandrima Sikdar nailed it on:
"The role of universities today extends far beyond imparting knowledge."
The new job of a university isn't to teach you what to know.
It's to teach you how to learn, adapt, and collaborate with machines that keep getting smarter every 6 months.
Every college in India is about to face the same question NMIMS just answered.
Do you keep AI as an elective… while your graduates walk into a job market that treats it as oxygen?
Or do you make it non-negotiable?
NMIMS picked a side.
And 40,000 students are about to graduate looking very different from the batch before them.
That's all for now!
