Home⇛International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research⇛vol. 6 no. 12 (2025)

Content Analysis of Institutional Policies on the Use of AI in Top HEIs

Jose Cris O. Sotto | Josan D. Tamayo | Clarissa P. Vicente

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

The unprecedented rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in 2022 has compelled leading universities to articulate formal policies governing its pedagogical and research applications. Yet coherent guidance for higher education systems—particularly in the Global South—remains underdeveloped. This study undertook a thematic analysis of AI policies issued by the top 50 institutions in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023, employing Chan’s (2023) pedagogical, governance, and operational dimen-sions as analytic lenses. The analysis demonstrates a global conver-gence around AI’s pedagogical utility and research-enhancing po-tential, tempered by robust institutional commitments to academic integrity, responsible deployment, and the ethical management of AI-generated content. Universities are also investing in interdisci-plinary AI initiatives, cultivating industry partnerships, and adopt-ing differentiated approaches to instructor autonomy in regulating classroom AI use. These insights offer a critical foundation for Phil-ippine higher education institutions seeking to articulate contextu-ally grounded, ethically defensible, and future-oriented approaches to AI governance.



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