Colleges Inject AI Into Accounting Programs to Increase Appeal

Peter Demerjian was in a bind when he took over Georgia State University’s accounting school in 2022. In a 10-year period, the program had lost 40% of its undergraduate majors and more than two-thirds of its master’s students, he said.

His solution after talking with students, alumni, and firm leaders: inject some tech.

“This is a way to kind of supercharge the idea that it’s a data field; it’s a technology field,” said Demerjian, who is launching an AI-driven master’s accounting program this fall.

Like Georgia State, schools from the University of Notre Dame to Colorado State University Global are ...