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Not Teaching About AI. Teaching Through It.

India's First AI Campus with campus-wide deployment of ChatGPT Edu

At UPES, AI is not an add-on or a tool you learn later. It is embedded into how you learn from day one. Built on an AI-first philosophy, our campus-wide AI learning ecosystem integrates Artificial Intelligence across all seven multidisciplinary schools, shaping future-ready professionals who can think critically, act ethically, and lead with intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence is embedded across learning, research, innovation, entrepreneurship, and student success. By integrating Artificial Intelligence with humane intelligence, human-centered learning, ethical responsibility, and real-world outcomes, UPES ensures education goes beyond technology to create meaningful impact.

100+

AI-Integrated Programs

33%

Built-in AI into Core Curriculum

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Personal AI Mentor for Every Learner

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Starts with AI embedded learning

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OUR VISION

AI Is Built Into Your Degree, Not Added Later

AI is not arriving, it has arrived. It is reshaping what knowledge means, how work gets done, and what it takes to lead. UPES has made a fundamental choice: rather than bolt AI onto existing education, we are rebuilding from the ground up.

01

AI-Integrated Teaching

Every course is redesigned so AI tools are woven into how students learn, not treated as a separate subject.

02

Discipline-Specific Application

Engineers use AI differently than lawyers. Doctors differently than designers. We train for that reality.

03

Critical AI Judgement

Students don't just use AI they interrogate it, challenge its outputs, and understand its limits and risks.

04

Future-Proof Outcomes

Graduates who can shape how AI is deployed responsibly in their fields not just consume it.

“Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of knowledge, work, and expertise itself. It is our responsibility as a university not only to respond to that change but to shape it.”

VC

Dr. Sunil Rai

Vice Chancellor, UPES

THE FOUR PILLARS

Where AI Changes
Everything

UPES's AI-first approach isn't a single initiative. It's a complete transformation across four interconnected dimensions of university life.

01

Teaching and Pedagogy

Faculty redesign course delivery with AI as an active participant generating first drafts, simulating scenarios, and surfacing complexity that drives deeper classroom analysis.

AI-co-teaching Flipped classrooms Real-time feedback

02

Learning and Curriculum

AI is embedded into the structure of every program and not as an elective, but as the lens through which disciplinary knowledge is acquired, challenged, and applied.

Program redesign AI literacy Critical thinking

03

Student Experience

From personalised academic guidance to AI-powered career mentoring, the entire student journey is reimagined and making support smarter, more responsive, and more human.

Personal agentic AI mentor AI mentoring AI-Enabled infrastructure

04

Student Outcomes

Graduates enter a labour market transformed by AI ready not just to use these tools, but to lead with them, govern them, and take responsibility for their impact in the real world.

AI-premium careers Leadership ready Responsible AI

METHODOLOGY

How We Embed AI

A systematic approach not a pilot, not an experiment. A permanent redesign of how UPES educates, at every level and in every field.

STEP 01

AI Generates; Students Interrogate

Every AI output is the starting point, not the destination. Students use disciplinary knowledge to stress-test, critique, and improve what AI produces.

A law student asks an LLM to draft a contract clause then identifies every gap against the Indian Contract Act and rewrites it with precision.

STEP 02

Real Problems. Real AI. Real Stakes.

Projects mirror professional environments. Students face genuine complexity, where AI is a collaborator, not a shortcut and expert judgement still determines the outcome.

Civil engineering students use AI to design a structural system, then validate every output against IS codes, finite element models, and safety regulations.

STEP 03

Assessment That Proves Real Learning

Exams and assessments are redesigned for an AI-enabled world mainly focusing on reasoning, decision-making, and applied expertise that AI cannot replicate or replace.

MBA students receive an AI-generated market analysis then rebuild the strategy, correcting AI’s generic assumptions with primary research and domain insight.

AI in Every Discipline

Every school at UPES has designed its own discipline-specific AI integration because how AI transforms engineering is not how it transforms law, medicine, or design.

School of Advanced Engineering

Engineering and Technology

In Practice: Students use generative models to prototype structural and system designs, then verify every output through hand calculations, simulation software, and code compliance checks mirroring real engineering workflows.

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Business and Management

In Practice: AI drafts market strategies and financial models; students act as critical managers identifying where AI is generic or wrong, and rebuilding the strategy with domain expertise and real data.

SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCES

Computer Science and Data

In Practice: Students build, audit, and stress-test AI systems understanding model architecture, bias, explainability, and governance from the inside out.

School of Health Science And Technology

Health and Medicine

In Practice: Clinical reasoning is sharpened by having students evaluate AI diagnostic suggestions against patient presentations, ethical frameworks, and evidence-based guidelines.

SCHOOL OF DESIGN

Design and Creative Arts

In Practice: Generative AI is used as an ideation partner; students must take a creative position on the output contextualising, refining, and asserting authorship over the final work.

SCHOOL OF LAW

Legal Studies

In Practice: Students test AI-drafted judgements and legal briefs against case law and statutes, developing the analytical rigour that distinguishes a UPES lawyer in an AI-augmented profession.

STUDENT OUTCOMES

Graduates Built for
What Comes
Next

The labour market has already shifted. AI-related roles are growing 61% year-on-year globally. Professionals with AI skills command a significant salary premium and UPES graduates are ready for this world and not playing catch-up in it.

61%

Rise in AI-related job postings globally in 2024

14%

Average wage premium for AI-skilled professionals

170M

New jobs created by AI by 2030 (WEF)

58%

Wage premium in technical data roles

AI Stewards, Not Passive Users

Every UPES graduate can design solutions using AI, interrogate its limitations, and take professional responsibility for its deployment in their field.

Deep Disciplinary Expertise, Preserved

AI is used selectively only where it enhances learning. Core competencies in clinical reasoning, legal judgement, engineering design, and creative practice are strengthened, not replaced.

Critical Thinking at Scale

Students graduate knowing how to challenge AI’s outputs, identify hallucinations and biases, and apply independent expert judgement which is the most durable professional skill of this era.

Responsible AI Leadership

Questions of authorship, accountability, ethics, and trust are embedded throughout producing graduates who shape how AI is used in the public interest, not just in their own careers.

Our Commitment

A Permanent
Redesign, Not a Pilot

UPES's AI-first transformation is not confined to a program or department. It is a university-wide commitment, systemic, permanent, and embedded into the fabric of every degree. Every student who enters UPES graduates as an architect of how AI is applied within their field.

We are not asking whether AI belongs in higher education. We are building the university that demonstrates what higher education looks like when the answer is fully, rigorously, and responsibly yes.

What This Means for Every Student

AI is embedded in your program from day one, not offered as an elective

You develop skills specific to how AI reshapes your industry and profession

Your assessment proves genuine understanding, not AI-generated answers

You graduate trusted, capable, and competitive, wherever AI reshapes work

AI-powered student services support your wellbeing and career from orientation to placement

You become someone who shapes responsible AI, not just someone who uses it