Give your graduates
the professional edge.
Partner your programmes with the Institute and every student joins the professional body for AI free, from their first term. At graduation they move into accredited membership at little or no cost, with a credential any employer can verify.
Free from day one,
accredited on the way out.
Membership from day one
Every student on a recognised programme joins the Institute free, onboarded as a whole cohort. A professional body behind them, the full learning library, and a membership they can put on a CV in their first term.
Accreditation on the way out
Graduates of recognised programmes move into accredited membership free or at a heavily reduced rate, through a shortened assessment. The programme they just completed stands as their evidence.
Proof employers can check
Accredited graduates carry post-nominals and a public verification page. Not a line on a CV: a claim any employer can check in seconds.
One cohort or every programme you run: the partnership is shaped around your institution, not the other way round.
Four steps,
at your pace.
Recognition is a review of what you already teach, not a redesign of it. Most partnerships are live within weeks of the first call.
A conversation
A short call with your programme lead or partnerships team. What you teach, where AI sits in it, and what your students need.
Mapping
We map your modules and learning outcomes against the IoAI competency framework and send a written view of where the programme already aligns. Desk-based, consultative, no site visit.
Recognition
The programme is recognised by the Institute: a public mark for your prospectus, course pages, and open days, valid for three years with a light-touch interim review.
Your students join
Cohorts are onboarded free, in bulk. Graduates apply for accredited membership on partner terms, with the programme standing as their evidence.
Our graduates already leave with a strong degree and a portfolio. The accreditation gives them something more, a credential an employer can verify in seconds, and they bring it up in every interview.
More for your students,
and your staff.
Professionals and Fellows of the Institute of AI deliver lectures, panel sessions, and careers talks for your cohorts, on campus or virtual.
Your student AI, data, or tech society gets speakers, event support, and a formal link to the professional body.
The strongest student work is featured nationally by the Institute, with commendations students can cite in applications.
Co-branded material for open days, your careers portal, and course pages, written with your teams rather than at them.
A standing line to the Institute as your programmes evolve: new modules, revalidation, and periodic review, benchmarked against the framework.
What your institution
gets back.
Employability you can evidence
Accredited graduates are a concrete, verifiable outcome: the kind that holds up in TEF narratives, graduate outcomes reporting, and employer panels.
A line that lands at open days
'Recognised by the professional body for AI' is a sentence applicants and their parents understand at first hearing, in a market where every course page claims AI.
An external benchmark
The mapping work gives your programme team an independent reading of the curriculum against a national framework, useful long before the next periodic review.
AI beyond
the curriculum.
Universities are not only teaching AI, they are adopting it: assessment policy, staff capability, governance of AI in research and operations. Partner institutions can draw on the Institute's advisory practice for that side too, the same independent team that advises boards across the UK, with no software to sell.
- AI policy for teaching and assessment
- Staff capability and training, from leadership to all-staff
- Governance of AI in research and operations
What programme teams ask
before they begin.
Does the programme have to sit in a computing department?+
What does recognition actually involve?+
What does a partnership cost?+
How does this sit alongside accreditations we already hold?+
Are international students included?+
Bring the professional body
to your campus.
A short call with a named partnerships lead. From first contact to a live partnership in weeks, at your pace.