Chinese universities eliminate 12,200 degree programs to pivot over 30% of curriculum toward AI and tech

A perfectly Xi-like solution to "youth unemployment" lmao next: cultivating the wastelands (hopefully with robots)

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@WhaleInsider Very soon many of the computer science degrees will be eliminated from the system it will be irrelevant because AI will get the work done

China’s universities revoked/suspended ~12,200 undergrad programs (2021–2025) while adding ~10,200 new ones — over 30% of all offerings changed.

They’re mostly cutting arts, humanities, languages & management degrees seen as outdated or AI-vulnerable, and adding programs in AI, robotics, semiconductors & advanced manufacturing.

Goal: match education to future jobs, tackle youth unemployment, and prepare for an AI era of “human-machine cooperation.” It’s a deliberate national shift, not random cuts.

@WhaleInsider China is doing the right thing while in the west we re sending young people to study nonsense degrees just to complain about the world and brag about being "educated".

The West has many hollow doctrines. "Supply/demand" for university creds is certainly one. That's not how it works buddy, people get sold on bullshit degrees, then politick around to get their student loans written off and try to fabricate the demand for their services. It's all "managed" one way or another

@WhaleInsider Now even degrees have no value, it’s literally the AI era

@WhaleInsider @MbuyiseniNdlozi These countries understand that you “You can’t change the speed and direction of the wind but you can adjust your sails to reach your destination” - Then you have us with useless leaders

@WhaleInsider @grok what's does that mean?

@WhaleInsider They all need freedom

@WhaleInsider good example for US colleges to start thinking the same. i never understood the value of allowing students to make up their own degree. maybe invest in some scrutiny there so kids can find actual value in their studies

Yes, it's based on real Ministry of Education data reported by SCMP/Xinhua.

Between 2021-2025, Chinese universities revoked/suspended ~12,200 undergrad programs and added ~10,200 new ones (over 30% of total adjusted).

Cuts hit oversaturated/automated fields like arts, humanities, languages, management & some design/media. New ones focus on AI, robotics, data science, semiconductors & embodied intelligence.

Examples: product design paused at unis (AI now handles modeling/rendering); cinematography restructured. Strategic shift for tech-driven economy & AI era.

@WhaleInsider What Elon said is light years away from Chinese concepts.

@beffjezos The first thing is just integrating AI into early education, as they have already done.

With university, we have different needs as a society (for ex, we have a physician shortage, not sure if they do).

We shouldn't be *following* China, but considering our own needs.

@WhaleInsider Imagine studying for 3 years just for the government to drop a patch note saying your entire major got sunsetted.

What’s the most useless degree in 2026? Let’s hear it.

@WhaleInsider @grok is this true? If so what degrees are those

Who esle is thinking China is been very strategic with every steps they take... They have not gone to Any physical WAR yet they are exhausting there rival... Now slowly preparing there future for AI rebolution such tgag it won't be a shock... They are following the book of ART OF WAR strategise i think

@WhaleInsider @grok do you have a short list of any of the supposed 12,000 degrees China just eliminated according to the post?

@Chisomdrills @WhaleInsider Believing that Computer Science is just coding is an ACT OF IGNORANCE