Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence in Business in Los Angeles MS-AIB in LA
In a field that’s expanding at unprecedented speed, location matters. Earn a master’s degree in artificial intelligence in business from the W. P. Carey School of Business — now offered at Arizona State University’s downtown Los Angeles location. This immersive program prepares you to harness AI strategically while responsibly enhancing organizational performance and value, driving purposeful change across industries.
This page pertains to the MS-AIB program offered in person in Los Angeles.
The first cohort will begin in Fall 2027. The application will open in September.
Propel your career in Los Angeles
ASU California Center Broadway stands out as a cultural landmark in a modern city. This is where the MS-AIB comes alive — immersive, forward-looking, and powered by the energy of downtown LA.
Academics
The demand for AI expertise in business is accelerating. Organizations need leaders who understand how to bridge technology and strategy. The MS-AIB curriculum provides a business-aligned framework for understanding, designing, and implementing AI solutions across industries.
You’ll gain both the technical understanding of how and why AIs learn and actual execution of AI-powered solutions to real-world problems across diverse business contexts. Along the way, you’ll explore the ethical, governance, and innovation principles that ensure AI implementation is principled and sustainable.
MS-AIB fast facts
Downtown Los Angeles location
Earn your degree where innovators thrive
Two semesters
Full-time program length
STEM-designated
Expanded career opportunities for international students
The ASU master’s degree in AI for business is recognized by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as a STEM-designated degree program. The STEM designation allows eligible graduates on student visas access to an Optional Practical Training (OPT) extension, up to 36 months, as compared to 12 months for non-STEM degrees.
MS-AIB in LA courses
The master’s degree in AI for business requires 30 total credit hours. In Los Angeles, you’ll study at ASU’s vibrant downtown location and can complete the program in just two semesters. Courses cover the full spectrum of AI in business.
Ensuring the foundational understanding of contextualized analytics within the business enterprise continuum by covering how data flows and is managed across the landscape of enterprise business processes.
Provides the foundations of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and business fundamentals in relation to AI, and explores AI's applications within companies and across industries to enhance decision-making, improve processes and achieve positive outcomes. Also explores impacts of AI at the societal, organizational and individual level.
Charting a roadmap for data-driven decision making and getting a practical understanding of how IT tools and techniques can allow managers to extract predictive analytics and patterns from primarily numeric data.
The design of insightful business data visualizations and dashboards to improve business decision making. Key focus on data visualization design principles incorporating graphical integrity. Applies advanced data visualization techniques to make sense of large data sets such as temporal, geospatial, topical and business data while also making it easier to digest, present and utilize for business needs and users.
Uses tools and techniques to analyze unstructured data that are applied to business problems to support informed decision making and the extraction of predictive analytics and patterns from primarily nonnumeric data.
Delves into the strategic, technical and ethical dimensions of leveraging AI and analytics to transform businesses. Focuses on formulating strategies that integrate AI capabilities to sustain a competitive advantage.
Deep learning applications have become an integral part of our lives over the last decade. Applications based on deep learning models cover a wide spectrum of industries including retail, automotive, manufacturing, health care, banking, insurance, agriculture, security and surveillance. Hands-on look at the latest models, trends, challenges and strategy of deep learning applications in business.
Students will benefit from understanding practical ramifications of Information and Information Technology governance decisions, how they support broader business objectives, and implications of geopolitical differences. Business students will gain insights into best practices of governing data analytics, artificial intelligence/advanced algorithms (AI), cloud platforms, information and cybersecurity, as well as understand their pivotal role in supporting global business strategy.
Provides a foundation in programming fundamentals, the skills to combine and manipulate structured and unstructured data, and the ability to summarize, visualize, and draw insights from the data.
Integrate and apply your technical expertise, business acumen, and ethical considerations to solve real-world business challenges. Working in teams, students will design an AI-driven transformation project that addresses a specific business problem while demonstrating mindfulness and ethical considerations. Through the semester-long project, students will navigate the complexities of managing and deploying AI solutions in business settings, with an emphasis on creating sustainable and impactful transformations.
Experience downtown Los Angeles
As an MS-AIB student at ASU’s downtown LA location, you’ll be immersed in an environment where industries are actively exploring how AI can transform their work.
Learn at ASU California Center Broadway
Housed at the ASU California Center Broadway, the MS-AIB program offers more than world-class instruction — it creates a hub for ideas, partnerships, and innovation. In state-of-the-art classrooms, you’ll learn alongside peers and faculty who share your drive to shape the future of business with AI. Every detail is crafted to spark ideas and connections.
Live at Broadway Palace
Housing for Los Angeles MS-AIB students is available at the luxury apartment building Broadway Palace, which has a unique design based on Old Hollywood. You’ll live just two blocks away from classes in the ASU California Center Broadway, and enjoy a variety of free building amenities.
- Indoor volleyball and basketball courts
- 24/7 state-of-the-art gym and sauna
- Complimentary Peloton and yoga classes
- A rooftop pool and a second resort-style pool
Where innovators thrive
From entertainment and media to fintech, global trade, healthcare, and manufacturing, LA’s economy offers countless opportunities to see AI in action and connect with leaders shaping the future. Our students are surrounded by forward-thinking companies, startups, and creative enterprises, all within one of the most culturally dynamic cities in the world.
Whether you want to stay in Los Angeles, expand nationally, or work globally, the relationships you build and the experiences you gain here will help you shape the next chapter of your career.
Committed to your success
The MS-AIB program in Los Angeles is built to fit your life today and launch you into the AI-driven careers of tomorrow. Learn from the same renowned W. P. Carey faculty who teach in Arizona and online, and tap into dedicated career coaching and employer connections from the W. P. Carey Career Services Center. All in the heart of LA — a global hub of innovation and opportunity.
Contact W. P. Carey
To request additional information about our programs, please complete the form below. Once submitted, you will be contacted by a W. P. Carey recruiter.
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Start your application
Take the next step in your education, career, and future at the W. P. Carey School of Business, where business is personal®. Most students can complete the online application in about 30 minutes. We look forward to reviewing your application and connecting with you soon. Apply now!