As AI pushes students to reconsider majors, universities struggle to adapt - Lexi Lonas Cochran, the Hill

A recent poll shows AI’s increasing role in how students decide on college majors, creating a rapidly developing situation for universities that are still struggling to determine how the technology will shape higher education. The Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2026 State of Higher Education survey found 47 percent of currently enrolled college students have thought about switching majors “a great deal” or a “fair amount” over AI concerns.  Forty percent of the AI job losses will occur in Texas, California, New York, Florida and Illinois, the researchers predict.  And young people are predicted to take the biggest hits from AI since experts say it could largely take over entry level work. 

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