Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a burgeoning field undergoing rapid progress and development. Technological advances that rely on AI are numerous and include applications such as self-driving automobiles, medical diagnosis, computer-assisted translation tools, speech recognition, biometrics, entertainment, and a wide variety of classification and predictive technologies. AI is recognized as having immense social, technological, and ethical implications for society. This diploma will allow graduates to either begin or broaden their careers in computing-related fields and provide them with a depth of knowledge in the highly sought-after field of AI. AI is an area that is in high demand, and graduates of this program will be prepared for entry into the workplace or into graduate programs.

The Computer Science faculty at StFX are very active in research. Together, they provide an education in Computer Science that produces high-achievers who are well-suited for graduate studies or to develop a career in the industry. StFX’s Computer Science program is the top-ranked in Atlantic Canada in Maclean’s for the third year in a row. Computer Science research at StFX was tied for first place in Canada in field-specific research impact (Field-weighted citation impact, Maclean’s 2019). Students in the Artificial Intelligence Post-Baccalaureate Diploma will also join a vibrant department surrounded by like-minded undergraduate and graduate students.

Completion of a four year undergraduate degree from a recognized university with a cumulative average of 70 PERCENT or higher in the applicants undergraduate program

One Computer Science course in a programming language or equivalent

IELTS 6.5 with no band below 6 Recognized English Language Proficiency Tests

Students with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science may be eligible to apply to either of our two Masters programs in Computer Science Click here for more details

Students must have completed a university-level statistics course prior to beginning semester 3 of the program Students who have not taken a statistics course as part of their undergraduate degree can complete the course while at StFX