College students may boo graduation speakers who positively mention AI, but AI classrooms are overflowing. Everyone from business students to music majors now want to learn how to work with the machines that could impact their careers.

Accelerated degrees have fired up debate on whether proficiency can be achieved faster than institutions have traditionally accepted.

The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.

Hiring has cooled for entry-level software developers—work increasingly done by AI agents—and college enrollment in computer and information science programs has been declining.