Oracle AI Database in Education
With advanced performance, scalability, security, and data management capabilities, Oracle AI Database helps you bring innovation to the classroom. By empowering educators, students, and researchers with world-class tools, technology, and educational resources, we’re helping the next generation of innovators. Together, we’re shaping the future—one breakthrough at a time.
Oracle is committed to education and fostering the next generation of tech talent
Oracle has been building solutions for the diverse and data-intensive needs of universities and colleges for decades. Oracle’s solutions for higher education can support the high performance computing required to advance the most challenging research projects. Our security-first approach protects student, faculty, and alumni data. Our commitment to higher education also extends beyond technology, with free learning materials provided through Oracle Academy and Oracle Education Foundation as well as internship and job opportunities for students and new graduates.
LiveLab: Applied Database Systems using Oracle AI Database
Learn the basic components of Oracle AI Database 26ai through a combination of lectures and hands-on labs. By the end of the course, you will have mastered the basic concepts related to database technologies.
The heart of it all: Oracle AI Database
Let’s be real: everything runs on data. Oracle AI Database isn’t just enterprise-grade tech used by global companies—it’s a powerful and reliable foundation for your organization that can help people see data in new ways, discover insights, and unlock endless possibilities.
Built for learning
Used in Oracle Academy to teach critical skills such as SQL, database design, and data science.
Research-ready
Analyze complex data with high performance, built-in AI, analytics, ML, and spatial tools.
Robust security
Built for real-world data challenges, Oracle Database helps protect sensitive student, faculty, alumni, and research data.
Fast, free, and scalable
Start with Oracle Cloud Free Tier and Oracle APEX, the world’s most popular application development platform, and grow with your projects.
Who We Support
Educators
You are empowering the next generation of builders, analysts, and problem solvers. Oracle can help support you and give your students valuable, hands-on experience.
What you get:
- Curriculum from Oracle Academy
- Free cloud tools and resources
- Training and certifications to stay sharp
- Support for program development and innovation
- Support from the engineering and products teams that built the tools
- Hackathon support
Students
You’ve got ideas. You’ve got ambition. We’ve got the infrastructure and tools.
What you get:
- Free courses and Hands-On Labs through Oracle Academy
- Always Free Cloud accounts to build real stuff
- Certifications to prove your skills
- Hackathons, challenges, and community
- Support for student competitions, such as Formula E and capstone projects
Researchers
Big ideas need big compute—and technology that won’t crash halfway through your simulation.
What you get:
- Access to OCI for data-heavy research
- Funding and collaboration via Oracle for Research
- High security for sensitive data
- Built-in analytics, spatial, and AI features in Oracle Database
- Research collaboration and technical guidance from Oracle experts
Education success stories
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Dr. Changmi Jung, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Changmi Jung is Academic Program Director of Information Systems, a program designed to intersect business and technology. Oracle Academy resources for the teaching of databases and SQL programming.
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Dr. Elias Gounopoulos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Assistant Professor Dr. Elias Gounopoulos teaches both undergraduates and postgraduates, versing them in the workings of relational database management systems. His classes follow the Oracle Academy database curriculum.
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David Berko, Computer Science Student, University of Ghana
David Berko is a year three Computer Science student in the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. As an aspiring software engineer, his Systems Administration classes are based on Oracle Academy curriculum.
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Professor Sungja Choi, Gachon University, South Korea
Professor Sungja Choi is an adjunct professor in the Department of AI Software. She also oversees collaboration between Gachon Software Academy, the Ministry’s talent development program, and businesses looking for skilled graduates.
Join the Next Generation of Oracle Experts
Oracle AI Database in Education is committed to developing the next generation of tech talent by offering certifications, hackathons, training, and more. Discover all the benefits that Oracle Academy, Oracle AI Database and Oracle University can provide you!
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