16 July 2020

Interest in LiU’s summer courses has increased massively. This year the number of registered students is five times more than last year. Most popular is the online course Elements of AI, to which 1314 participants have been accepted.

Elements of AI is popular summer course.

Linköping University’s summer courses are increasingly popular. This year LiU is offering 11 summer courses, compared to 6 last year. New this year are Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Leadership and Organisation; Project Management; and Elements of AI, a course taught in both English and Swedish.

The most popular course is Elements of AI, with 1201 first-choice applicants, followed by Leadership and Organisation; Employment Law; and Project Management. All in all, five times as many students registered in 2020, compared to 2019. Even excluding Elements of AI, the increase is 78 per cent.

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