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# US bachelor's degrees in AI hardware-related fields fell 13% from their 2020 peak, to 96,150 in 2024
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/us-ai-hardware-graduates-by-degree/
- Published: 2026-10-19T17:23:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:05:55.000Z
- Description: US institutions awarded 96,150 bachelor's degrees in AI hardware-related fields such as electrical engineering in 2024, 13% below the 2020 peak of 110,511. Master's graduates, at 43,373, are where they were in 2016.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI in Education, AI in the US, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-education, #country-us

96,150

▼ 13% since the 2020 peak

bachelor's graduates in AI hardware-related fields at US institutions, 2024

20142024

## What the chart shows

Bachelor’s degrees in AI hardware-related fields, which include electrical and electronics engineering and industrial engineering, peaked at 110,511 in 2020 and fell to 96,150 in 2024, a 13% drop. Associate’s degrees fell from 27,449 in 2014 to 18,748.

Graduate degrees are roughly flat: 43,373 master’s graduates in 2024, close to 2016’s 43,445, and 9,555 PhD graduates, below the 2022 high of 9,917\. Across all four levels, 167,826 people graduated in 2024, 8% below the 2018 high of 182,252.

## Key numbers

| Measure                 | Value   |
| ----------------------- | ------- |
| Bachelor's, 2020 (peak) | 110,511 |
| Bachelor's, 2024        | 96,150  |
| Master's, 2024          | 43,373  |
| Associate's, 2014       | 27,449  |
| Associate's, 2024       | 18,748  |
| PhD, 2024               | 9,555   |

## How to read it

- AI hardware-related majors follow the January 2025 White House AI Talent Report and include Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, and Industrial Engineering.
- Degrees completed at US institutions (IPEDS), including by international students.
- The all-level total is the sum of the four degree levels in the data file.

**Source:** [National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#nces-ipeds), 2024, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 7.2.1: *New AI-related postsecondary graduates in the United States, 2014–24 (AI hardware–related)*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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