Texas Schools Top Forbes' AI-Ready Grads List

0:00It's April 22nd. Welcome in. This is Dallas News Today, where local news meets AI. I'm Cory with the story. Two Texas schools just landed on Forbes 2026 new Ivey's list. Spotlighting colleges pumping out grads. Bosses crave in the AI boom. Rice University in Houston and the University of Texas at Austin cracked the top 20. Split even between public and private spots for nailing. Workforce prep amid tech shifts. The ranking pulls from surveys of over 100 execs in hiring pros who flagged AI as a game changer for entry-level jobs, jacking up what new. Hires need to bring. Rice has owned this list for three straight years, baking AI tools into classes across the board, so students stack up their work against machine. Outputs and sharpen their edge on reasoning and bias. Meanwhile, UT Austin is doubling down, set to onboard 50 new faculty for a brand new school of computing to push AI skills into every major on campus.

1:01Texas is flexing hard in higher ed now, with these power moves signaling how public giants and sharp privates are stealing thunder from old school. Elites, gearing grass to thrive as AI rewires the job game.