CCNY/MIT AI + Entrepreneurship Certificate
Through conversations with many NYC employers, we are seeing a consistent demand for student interns and recent graduates who can quickly work on AI solutions to help solve business needs.
We want to help prepare you for those jobs and internships!
They don’t necessarily need people with coding experience - so you don’t need that experience either!
Practicing an entrepreneurial mindset, skills and way of thinking will help you be competitive in a small business, a startup, a medium size company or a large multinational organization.
How It Works
The CCNY/MIT AI + Entrepreneurship Certificate Program runs during the academic year. The current group started in Fall of 2025 and is continuing through Spring 2026.
We anticipate that the next group will start in Fall 2026 and run though Spring 2027.
- In Fall, students participate in a number of online or in-person prerequisite activities
- Completing these activities will make students eligible for a class in Spring, ECO 31123 AI and Entrepreneurship. Enrollment will be by permission of instructor, based on completing the Fall activities.
- The AI and Entrepreneurship class will be highly experiential with real-world examples, mentors from NYC companies, and a capstone project working with company partners
Student Projects from 2025
- An interactive dashboard to help understand the impact of philanthropic grants from a large utility company.
- Tools to analyze quantitative and qualitative customer survey data for startup companies.
- Ideas to provide customized experiences for customers of a subscription product to create delight and improve retention.
- An AI agent to automatically create article summaries for local news media
Other Collaborations
CSc 59866/7 - Capstone I/II: BEAT+: Adding Branding and Entrepreneurship for Real-World Applications Using Emerging Technologies: AI, AR, AT, and Apps - Fall 2025 – Spring 2026, with Dr. Zhigang Zhu.
This class emphasizes four components: Branding, Entrepreneurship, Applications, and Technologies. Undergraduate Seniors in CS and CpE will work in teams to design emerging technical solutions in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Assistive Technology (AT), data analytics and app development skills to solve real-world application problems for social good and national priorities. Teams will learn basic branding principles (how to design user interfaces and communicate with end users and community partners about their technical solutions) and basics of entrepreneurship (customer discovery, business models, etc.). Teams will be encouraged to participate in academic research projects, the CCNY Zahn Innovation competitions and NYSID’s CREATE competition. We will invite collaborators from both academia and industry as the BEAT+ mentors and evaluators.
LAAR 64150 - Design Research - Fall 2025 with Dr. Laura Wainer.
This seminar complements the landscape architecture studio, developing essential methodologies of design research and advanced representational techniques. Students learn to conceptualize and communicate landscape analysis, design, and research techniques through the development of data-based infographics and maps; time-based videos and animations; and three-dimensional digital and physical terrain modeling. The Design Research seminar supports the development of students' design studio theses and spatial propositions.
Last Updated: 08/05/2026 11:35