Gartner predicts that by 2028, at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made autonomously through agentic AI—up from effectively zero today—and that 33% of enterprise software applications will embed agentic AI capabilities.
Demand for professionals who can build, govern, and orchestrate these agents is rising faster than supply, making graduates with hands-on agent-building experience among the most sought-after profiles in today’s job market.
This year at SAP Sapphire, SAP laid out its vision for the Autonomous Enterprise, where AI agents manage and execute business processes end to end. For universities, this raises an immediate question: How do graduates get ready for a world where AI agents are part of daily operations?
SAP is now providing new no-cost offerings and resources for universities that give lecturers and students hands-on access to AI agent building, process management, and enterprise architecture tools. The goal is to help higher education keep pace with the rapid adoption of agentic AI in industry and prepare graduates for a changing job market.
Preparing the next generation of AI agent builders
