PG Program in AI Agents for Business Applications

Master AI agents with Texas McCombs. Start your learning journey today. Build your first AI agent.

The program at a glance

  • 3 months onlineHands-on Learning
  • Top academics and expertsTeach the core concepts
  • Weekly live mentorshipSessions by industry experts
  • Learning supportAcademic and Program Support
  • Certificate of completion From the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin + 2.5 CEUs

Week 1 Curriculum

Build your first agent this week

Learn the concepts from top faculty, then unlock a live build with an industry mentor and personalized AI feedback.

  1. Start learning and try building an agent on your own

    Recorded lessons cover how large language models work, how to prompt them, and how an agent differs from a chatbot. Then you set up your own news briefing agent from a starter template.

  2. Join a live hands-on workshop with an industry expert

    An industry expert runs the agent live, stress-tests it and improves it, then answers your questions.

  3. Submit your agent and get personalized AI feedback

    Polish and test your agent, then submit it for feedback on your own build.

Join a live hands-on workshop

What you get

  • Led by an industry expert who shows you the right way to build an agent
  • Submit your agent and get personalized AI feedback

This is a paid workshop. Book your seat from inside Week 1, once you've started.

What you build in Week 1

Two tracks

Code or no-code. You choose.

Both build working agents. Only the tools differ.

No-code track

For functional professionals who never wrote code and don’t want to. You build with visual drag-and-drop tools.

n8n · Google AI Studio · Claude · ChatGPT

Code track

For anyone who writes some Python, or wants to. You build with code, APIs and agent frameworks.

Python · LangChain · LangGraph · OpenAI

Not sure which fits?

After Week 1

The full program, if you join

Your Week 1 progress carries over.

  • 12Weeks, about 6–8 hours each
  • 3Hands-on projects
  • 15+Case studies
  • 8+Live mentor sessions

  • Automate the work that slows your business down

    Build AI agents that use tools, remember context and take action to run real business workflows end to end.

  • Build an agent that you can trust

    Equip your agent to answer from your own data, test and evaluate every output, and protect it from misuse and attacks.

  • Scale from one agent to a team of agents

    Orchestrate a system of multiple specialist agents that work together to solve complex enterprise problems.

  1. Learn how LLMs and AI agents work. Write and test prompts that give consistent results, and connect AI to your own documents so its answers are accurate and verifiable.

    LLMs · Prompt Engineering · Python for Agentic AI · Prompt Optimization · LLM-as-a-Judge · Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

  2. Build AI Agents that run processes end to end by thinking, observing, remembering, and acting, and protect them from misuse and attacks.

    Single-Agent Systems · Tools · Memory · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · ReAct · Responsible AI · Guardrails

  3. Design teams of specialist AI agents that work together on complex business problems, then test and evaluate them before they go live to users.

    Multi-Agent Orchestration · Agentic RAG · Agent Evaluation · Human-in-the-Loop

Sample certificate: The University of Texas at Austin confers the Post Graduate Program in AI Agents for Business Applications, presented by the McCombs School of Business, signed by Gaylen Paulson, Ph.D., and Kumar Muthuraman, Ph.D.

Certificate of completion from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin

Awarded on completing the full program. Image for illustration only

What you get with the full program

  • Hands-on learningBuild agentic AI systems with industry tools, projects and real-world case studies.
  • Live mentorship sessionsEngage with industry experts who discuss real-world cases on Agentic AI, GenAI, LLMs, and AI agents.
  • Learning supportA dedicated program manager, the Great Learning community, project forums and peer groups.
  • A compelling e‑portfolioShow employers the skills and tools you’ve mastered.
  • Recognized credentialsA certificate of completion from the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin.

Faculty and mentors

Learn from the best in academia. Apply it with industry mentors.

Faculty

  • Dr. Kumar Muthuraman

    Faculty Director, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin

    21+ years' experience in AI, machine learning, deep learning and NLP

  • Dr. Daniel A. Mitchell

    Clinical Assistant Professor, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin

    Ph.D. in Information, Risk and Operations Management; 15+ years' experience in financial engineering

  • Mr. Amish Suchak

    AI Engineer and Founder, Percruit

    Former Team Lead of Data Science at Xsolis; teaches agentic AI for Great Learning and MIT Professional Education

Industry mentors

  • Kalle Bylin

    Data Engineer, Workday

  • Bhaskarjit Sarmah

    Head of AI Research for Financial Services, Domyn

  • Tanya Glozman

    Applied Science, AI/ML, Apple

  • Bridget Huang

    Tech Lead, Engineering, Capital One

  • Vinicio De Sola

    Senior AI Engineer, Newmark

What learners say

  • “The program was a great experience and truly exceeded my expectations. I now feel well-prepared to apply AI solutions within any organization.”

    Eldert J. LouisaChief Technology Officer, CircleGX

  • “The hands-on projects made it easy to understand the concepts. The instructors explained everything clearly and were very supportive.”

    ArifNike

  • “This program provided a rigorous exploration of autonomous agents, moving beyond foundational large language models.”

    Reid WisaChief Information Security Officer, Real Performance Marketing

  • “My three course projects taught me how to turn a business problem into an agent workflow, connect AI to trusted information, and identify risks before deployment.”

    Adolfo Julian CamperoProgram graduate

  • “I left the program with a solid understanding of the key learnings and principles. The instructors are highly skilled.”

    Daniel AnzaldoDynata

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