"While it is deeply satisfying to move up, we know that rankings remain an imperfect measure of a school's true impact. Students face a very challenging job market. A degree's impact shouldn't be measured by their first job or their first salary three months after graduation but by the value it creates over a lifetime,”said Dean Marchick.

Recognition of Kogod’s momentum has come from multiple directions: Bloomberg called Kogod the first AI-first business school; Poets&Quants recognized it as best in class for AI; and the Wall Street Journal featured on the front page Kogod’s AI initiative among other top business schools.

Kogod has infused AI throughout all of its programs and offers an AI major, an AI minor, an AI graduate degree, and AI microcredentials that signal AI fluency to hiring managers. More than 90% of Kogod faculty now use AI in their teaching. Axios and Anthropic have both reported that Washington, D.C. leads the nation in AI adoption—and Kogod graduates are positioned to meet that demand. 

Students also benefit from the broader American University ecosystem and its extensive connections to the DC job scene. AU recently announced that every undergraduate will have access to a $4,500 resource for a funded internship or research experience—a direct investment in career readiness for all students that works hand-in-hand with Kogod's outcomes-driven approach.

Behind those outcomes is a network of 25,000+ alumni leading Fortune 500 companies, federal agencies, global institutions, nonprofits, and startups, in the DC area and around the world.