LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The College of Southern Nevada has joined a growing list of colleges and universities offering an artificial intelligence certificate or formal degree to keep up with job market demands.
“To make sure that the AI is relevant, obviously we all know that AI is very relevant these days,” Naser Heravi, a professor and chair at CSN said.
CSN started offering a one, or two-year certificate or degree in AI and Machine Learning this semester. It’s for high schoolers or first year college students.
“Especially who want to come into a computer science major so they could start with this program and even transfer to their universities,” he said. “And of course community members or employees or employers who want their employees to be upskilled.”
There are now at least a dozen colleges and universities offering a formal major in AI. Students will learn skills in AI, data analysis, and data science.
“There’s prompt engineering, they’re very popular these days where you essentially ask AI questions and then train it. Also jobs in machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing. Those are all the kind of jobs that they they could enter with an entry level certificate like this,” he added.
According to investment bank, Goldman Sachs, the technology could impact 300 million jobs that rely on data processions or information gathering.
“We’re going to need, you know, high-skilled people who can, who can do the critical thinking that AI really can’t do that innovation and creating that AI can’t do,” he said.
According to the bureau of labor statistics, many AI-focused jobs such as researchers and scientists can make an average of $140,000 a year.
The CSN certificate or degree costs $4,000, but financial aid is available. The college is also working on offering a two-year Associate of Science degree in AI and Machine Learning.
Copyright 2025 KVVU. All rights reserved.
