Five ways in
Kelley's public AI offerings are designed as a ladder, not a list. Pick the rung that matches where you are to get started on your AI journey.
AI for Business: Practical Skills opens to the world
The follow-on to GenAI 101, taught at Kelley this year, is now available to the public.
Start here
GenAI 101
Free. Eight modules, 31 videos, about three and a half hours. Earn a shareable LinkedIn badge. No technical background required.
For anyone who wants to use AI in their work, starting today.
Skim this
37 AI Skills Every Professional Should Know
A 24-minute video pulled from Kelley's AI for Business curriculum. No enrollment. No login.
For anyone who has used AI a few times and wants to see what mastery looks like.
Go deeper
AI for Business: Practical Skills
The next level after GenAI 101. This program was taught this year to Kelley undergraduates and is now open to the public for enrollment.
For professionals ready to move past prompting basics into applied business skills.
Adopt AI
Leading with Al
An open enrollment series for managers and executives. Use AI for decision-making, workflows, organizational impact.
For leaders accountable for AI adoption across teams and functions.
Build agents
Agentic AI Strategies and Applications
A hands-on Kelley Executive Education program on building and deploying agentic AI in the enterprise. Kelley also offers three for-credit agentic AI courses for undergraduates, MSIS students, and Kelley Direct MBAs.
For technical and business leaders moving from chat-style AI to AI that takes action.
AI momentum by the numbers
Kelley, one of the largest top-ranked business schools in the United States, is deeply infusing AI into business courses and degrees, so all students are equipped to become effective, efficient, responsible, and ethical users of AI.
“AI is like math–it's everywhere.”
107,000+
Learners in GenAI 101 since August 2025, across all nine IU campuses and every department
66 days
From concept to launch for GenAI 101
9 credits
Required IT and AI coursework for every Kelley Bloomington undergrad (fall 2026)
120 faculty
In the Virtual Advanced Business Technologies Department
4,300
Course sections taught per year
4 AI engineers
Kelley's dedicated AI Core team supporting research, courses, and infrastructure
Accelerating AI momentum
From strategic decision in 2023 to global courses launched in 2026.
2023
Strategic decision: AI belongs in every department.
2024
vABT launches with 30 founding faculty. GenAI course for Kelley alumni.
2024–25
Pilot GenAI courses expanded for undergrads and master’s students.
2025
Whole-of-school AI Leadership Summit.
AUG 2025
GenAI 101 launches free to all IU students, faculty, and staff.
JAN 2026
Required AI & IT curriculum approved for all Kelley undergrads (fall 2026).
SPRING 2026
Three new Agentic AI courses for undergrads and master’s students.
APRIL 2026
GenAI 101 launches free to the world with a Kelley badge.
JUNE 2026
AI for Business: Practical Skills opens to the world.
Progress continues through summer 2026 and into Fall 2026. 200 Kelley faculty participate in Summer 2026 Course Development Workshops and Dean Hopkins convenes his third Whole-of-school AI Leadership Summit.
Required, not optional
Kelley AI isn't a major—it's required courses, live competitions, and student-to-student assistance across the school.
Starting fall 2026, every Kelley Bloomington undergraduate completes 9 credit hours of aligned IT and AI coursework as part of the core curriculum. The sequence begins with GenAI 101, continues with AI for Business: Practical Skills, and is reinforced through K201 and K303, Kelley's required business technology courses. The K201 and K303 courses were jointly redesigned this year to complement the new AI sequence.
Three additional agentic AI courses were piloted in spring 2026 at the undergraduate, MSIS, and Kelley Direct Online MBA levels. These courses will expand in the fall.
GenAI 101 and AI for Business: Practical Skills are also available for credit to any student on the Bloomington or Indianapolis campuses. GenAI 101 is now free for everyone.
Kelley Prompt-A-Thon
Kelley's second Prompt-A-Thon brought students together to compete on real business problems with generative Al. It's one of the first competitions of its kind in the country.
AI Ambassadors
The AI Hub, located right inside the front doors of Hodge Hall at the Kelley School, is students helping students with AI challenges for any course.
“Ultimately, business is a social enterprise. Real business you can't do with robots—the relationship part, the strategizing part. We're training students to lead, strategize, and make judgement calls, not just execute tasks.”
Patrick E. HopkinsDean, Kelley School of Business
Reinventing business education for the AI era
AI is a tool for business. Kelley's curriculum is infused with AI rather than siloed as a major. Business leaders must continue to develop Kelley's human strengths in teamwork, ethical behavior, and responsibility—our Kelley values—as they gain knowledge in accounting, finance, marketing ... and AI too.
The newly updated Kelley Faculty AI Playbook, a living document, published openly, sets out how Kelley faculty think about generative AI in teaching, research. and service. It is joined by a Kelley Student AI Playbook and companion Guide to Assessment. This is what we mean by authentically Kelley: the values come first, the tools follow.
Kelley's AI work is led by its faculty and is supported by a dedicated technical core. The Virtual Advanced Business Technologies Department (vABT), now 120 faculty with joint appointments across every academic department, coordinates AI work across teaching, research, and operations. A team of in-house AI Engineers translates faculty ideas into working systems.
That includes tools few business schools have:
- Kelley AI, Kelley hosts multiple open weight LLMS on our own GPUs for use of our data in cost-effective, controlled AI environments.
- Agentic AI Builder, a workflow platform that lets Kelley faculty and staff design and run agentic AI workflows
- AI Teaching Insights, which generates personalized feedback for instructors from their own syllabi and course evaluations
- Kelley Course Koach, an internal coaching agent that examines a professor's existing course materials and walks the instructor through highly personalized, Al-resilient redesigns of their assignments and rubrics. The AI prompt and process for Koach are now shared for anyone to reuse on GitHub.
All-day Summer AI Course Development Workshops
Almost 200 Kelley faculty came together in summer 2026 for full-day workshops to reinvent their courses with AI—not generic pedagogy, but tailored, hands-on work on their own syllabi and assignments. Faculty audit their courses with Kelley Course Koach to identify Red and Green zones for where students should or should not use AI for Bedrock and Signature assignments. Kelley is reinventing what we teach and how we assess it in the age of AI.
Real and relevant AI research
Kelley's Data Science and AI Lab (DSAIL) is an interdisciplinary research group bringing together roughly 28 undergraduate, master's, and PhD students from Kelley, the Luddy School of Informatics, the School of Public Health, and the College of Arts & Sciences who work with faculty affiliates across all four schools. DSAIL has secured more than $9 million in federal grant funding, primarily from the National Science Foundation, alongside support from IU, Kelley, and private partners
DSAIL research spans three areas:
- Cybersecurity (cyber threat intelligence. vulnerability management. Dark Web analytics. AI risk management)
- Mental health analytics (depression and anxiety detection, mobile sensor analysis, LLM-based therapeutic agents)
- Business intelligence (Al investment and capability assessment)
Selected partners include MITRE, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Cisco, NIST, Apple, and TSMC. DSAIL students present at venues including DEFCON's AI Village, Black Hat, and RSA.
Bringing Kelley AI to your organization
Before they were publicly released, GenAI 101 and AI for Business were adopted by multiple Fortune 500 employers for internal workforce AI literacy. As part of IU and Kelley's commitment to leading the future of AI education, Kelley Executive Education offers open enrollment AI programs, including Leading with AI and Agentic AI Strategies and Applications, and works with organizations to design custom AI programs for their leadership and workforce.
Further reading
- At Indiana Kelley, ‘AI Is,’ Not ‘AI Will’
- Speed, Values and Iteration: AI Communication Lessons From Indiana University
- Meet Crimson, Indiana Kelley's AI Co-Teacher For The Largest GenAI Course In Higher Ed
- 'Al Is The New Excel': Kelley Dean Patrick Hopkins On Future-Proofing Faculty and Students
- IU Opens Kelley School's GenAI 101 to Public, Scaling AI Skills Training Globally
- Embracing Al, Dean Patrick Hopkins
- In Spite of Concerns Smart Policing and Robocops Have Great Potential Benefits
- 37 AI Skills Every Professional Should Know
Kelley AI Playbook
The living document guiding how Kelley faculty think about generative AI.