Columbia Business School was named Poets&Quants’ MBA Program of the Year for its aggressive integration of artificial intelligence into pedagogy, a voice-powered learning platform (CAiSEY) and a reorientation of curriculum and hiring to prepare graduates for AI-driven business. Dean Costis Maglaras emphasized the school’s multiyear push to reorganize around technology, interdisciplinary ties to engineering and medicine, and an expanded climate curriculum. Admissions remained robust despite geopolitical headwinds for international students; Columbia enrolled record percentages of women and U.S. minority students and increased class size slightly. The recognition underscores a growing business-school divide between programs that tinker with AI and those that restructure operations and curriculum around the technology.