New credit-bearing AI Lab introduced across Master’s and MBA programs at campuses in Boston, London, and Dubai, preparing graduates to lead in an AI-driven workplace. 

BOSTON, LONDON & DUBAI—Hult International Business School today announced the launch of the Hult AI Lab, a new credit-bearing component being introduced across its Master’s in Management, Master’s in Marketing, and Global One-Year MBA programs beginning September 2026. The AI Lab gives students dedicated, structured time within their degree to build applied AI skills—designing, deploying, and supervising AI agents in real business environments—and the chance to graduate with a Hult Certificate in Applied AI alongside their master’s or MBA qualification. 

The announcement marks a significant evolution in Hult’s approach to building AI skills within graduate education. AI was already woven into the Hult student experience. The Hult AI Lab goes further, giving applied AI skill-building its own defined place in the curriculum, with dedicated time, practitioner faculty, and a practical assessment model. 

“The workplace our graduates are entering looks fundamentally different from even five years ago,” said Mona Dhillon, Provost and Executive Vice President at Hult International Business School. “AI is no longer an emerging topic in business education—it is a baseline expectation. With the Hult AI Lab, we are ensuring that every student in these programs not only understands AI in theory but can apply it with confidence and judgment in real-world situations. That is the standard employers are setting, and it is the standard we intend to meet.” 

According to the 2025 McKinsey Global Survey on AI, 88% of organizations now regularly use AI in at least one business function, and adoption is still accelerating. As a result, the demand for graduates who can apply AI strategically, rather than simply prompt competently, has never been greater. Tasks that once required entire teams are being absorbed at speed, and the skills gap between those who can navigate AI-enabled environments and those who cannot is widening.

The Hult AI Lab is designed to close that gap. Running across both the fall and spring terms, the lab places students in collaborative, interdisciplinary teams to tackle real business challenges using AI-driven thinking. Students design and deploy AI agents, supervise autonomous systems in live environments, build oversight dashboards, and present results to faculty and business clients. The assessment model reflects how companies evaluate employees: on outcomes and decision-making, not written exams. 

A sample lab, the Autonomous Agent Studio, illustrates the depth of the experience: students design an AI agent, release it to run a live LinkedIn campaign autonomously, build a real-time oversight dashboard to track its decisions, and conclude with a boardroom pitch graded on the quality of outputs and the rigor of human oversight. 

Students who complete the AI Lab will earn a Hult Certificate in Applied AI, a credential tied to their graduate degree and designed to provide employers with concrete, demonstrable evidence of applied AI capability from day one. 

The AI Lab is led by Hult’s practitioner faculty, professionals with direct experience of how AI is being applied across business functions today. That grounding in real-world practice is central to how the lab is designed: students are not learning about AI in the abstract, but working through the kinds of decisions, trade-offs, and challenges that organizations are actively navigating. 

Alongside applied AI fluency, the AI Lab develops the human skills that Hult treats as inseparable from responsible AI use: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and ethical reasoning. Students are trained to question AI outputs, identify bias and hallucination, and exercise judgment in complex, high-stakes situations. As AI makes task execution faster and information more accessible, it is these qualities that determine the difference between a capable operator and an effective leader. 

“The world doesn’t reward what you know in theory. It rewards what you can do,” Dhillon added. The Hult AI Lab sends our graduates into the workforce with real work, and the skills and confidence to lead in environments where AI is already part of how business gets done.” 

The Hult AI Lab will be available from September 2026 to students enrolling in the Master’s in Management, Master’s in Marketing, and Global One-Year MBA across Hult’s campuses in Boston, London, and Dubai. 

For more information, visit www.hult.edu. 

About Hult International Business School
Hult International Business School is a global business school recognized for its challenge-based curriculum and innovative approach to business education. At Hult, students learn by doing, think globally, and graduate ready to hit the ground running. Hult is recognized by top international accrediting bodies, including the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA), and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). The school and its programs have been named among the world’s best by Financial Times, Fortune, Bloomberg Businessweek, CEO Magazine, and The Princeton Review, and appear on LinkedIn’s Top Global MBA Programs list based on alumni career outcomes. Visit www.hult.edu.