中国高校砍掉1.2万个本科专业，转向AI与科技领域

Welcome to the permanent underclass, graduates.

joke aside: China is rapidly restructuring higher education for the AI era: from 2021 to 2025, universities cut or suspended 12,200 "obsolete" undergraduate programs and launched 10,200 new ones, reshaping over 30% of all degree programs.

The goal is to shift away from less job-aligned fields like arts and languages toward tech-focused disciplines tied to China’s industrial strategy, future industries, and worsening graduate unemployment crisis.

China is going all-in on AI, including in science. A significant proportion of scientists already come from China today.

By the way, it will be interesting to see how the situation regarding access for Chinese researchers and Fable 5 plays out in the future.