AI and Machine Learning Diplomas With Live Online Classes for Working Professionals
- How Live Classes Help You Learn AI and ML While Working
- Live, Self-Paced and Blended Online Formats
- How to Check That Live Session Times Suit Your APAC Time Zone
- Balancing Your Job With the Program Schedule
- AIM Postgraduate Diploma in AI and ML at a Glance
- Questions to Ask the Program Advisor Before You Enroll
- Frequently Asked Questions
The Postgraduate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) is designed for working professionals in Asia-Pacific. Its primary mode of learning is live online sessions with AIM faculty, supported by recorded content you work through at your own pace. The program runs for 12 months at 5 to 7 hours a week. AIM teaches from the Philippines (UTC+8), the same time as Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong and within three hours of most major Asia-Pacific cities, so live sessions stay close to your own working day.
How Live Classes Help You Learn AI and ML While Working
The AIM Postgraduate Diploma in AI and ML, contains live online sessions that support steady progress alongside a full-time role through a weekly rhythm, direct access to faculty, and a cohort of peers.
A weekly rhythm. Scheduled sessions give a 12-month program a steady structure, so study becomes a fixed part of your week.
Answers when you need them. Topics such as regression, neural networks and hyperparameter tuning move faster when you can put a question to AIM faculty during the session. The faculty include data science specialists such as Norbert Paul R. Gerena, Jose Bautista and Joaquin Emmanuel J. Gonzales.
Your cohort. The cohorts bring together professionals from technology, data, analytics, engineering, consulting and business functions across Asia-Pacific. Banking, financial services, IT, and technology and telecom are among the leading industries. After you complete the program, you join an AIM alumni network of more than 47,000 members in over 79 countries.
Beyond the core curriculum, you join additional live sessions with AIM faculty and industry experts. These cover deep learning architectures, multimodal AI, building agentic AI systems, RAG and LLM engineering, AI ethics and governance, and MLOps.
Live, Self-Paced and Blended Online Formats
Online AI and ML programs are usually self-paced, live only or blended. The AIM Postgraduate Diploma in AI and ML from the Asian Institute of Management is blended: live online sessions with AIM faculty lead the learning, and recorded content lets you study at your own pace between them. That pairing gives working professionals scheduled interaction with faculty and room to study around heavy work weeks.
| Format | How it works | Suits professionals who |
| Self-paced | Recorded material you complete on your own schedule | Want full control over when they study |
| Live only | Every element is delivered in scheduled sessions | Can protect fixed hours every week |
| Blended (the AIM diploma) | Live faculty sessions plus recorded content | Want scheduled interaction with the flexibility to study around heavy work weeks |
All course content is available to you from the start of the program, so you can work ahead before a busy stretch at work. A dedicated program support team is available 7 days a week for questions about the learning platform, technical issues or anything else that affects your learning.
How to Check That Live Session Times Suit Your APAC Time Zone
For any live online program, the deciding question is the hour each session runs in your own city. The AIM diploma is taught from the Philippines, on UTC+8, which puts much of Asia-Pacific in the same or a neighbouring hour:
| Where you work | Time compared with the Philippines |
| Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taipei, Perth | Same time |
| Bangkok, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City | 1 hour behind |
| Tokyo, Seoul | 1 hour ahead |
| Sydney, Melbourne | 2 to 3 hours ahead, depending on daylight saving |
| India | 2.5 hours behind |
Programs run from outside the region can place live sessions very early or very late for Asia-Pacific learners. With the AIM diploma, the time difference in most of the region is small enough to plan around.
To confirm the fit for your own week, check three things when you download the brochure or speak with the program advisor:
- The day and hour of live sessions in your city
- How many live sessions run each week alongside the recorded content
- The learning calendar for your intake, including the program’s learning pauses over Christmas and Chinese New Year
Balancing Your Job With the Program Schedule
The most reliable way to plan for the AIM diploma is to measure your last six months of work against its 5 to 7 hours a week.
- Count the weeks when an evening or weekend block would have been hard to protect.
- Note whether your travel follows a predictable pattern.
- Identify the quarters when your workload peaks, and plan to work ahead on recorded content before them.
Because all course content is available from the start, you can use quieter weeks to build a buffer, then rely on the live sessions to keep you moving with your cohort. The 12-month length keeps the weekly load steady, and the curriculum is sequenced month by month so you always know what comes next.
AIM Postgraduate Diploma in AI and ML at a Glance
The Postgraduate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning takes you from foundations to generative AI over four pillars and a capstone. It is designed for both technical and non-technical professionals, with foundational modules that help beginners learn AI and machine learning concepts.
| Months | Pillar | What you cover |
| 1 to 2 | Introduction to AI and Machine Learning | AI and ML concepts and applications, probability and statistics, linear algebra, calculus, Python, NumPy, Pandas and Jupyter notebooks |
| 3 to 5 | Supervised Learning Techniques | Regression and classification, support vector machines, neural networks, deep learning fundamentals, cross-validation and hyperparameter tuning |
| 6 to 8 | Unsupervised Learning and Advanced Topics | Clustering, principal component analysis, feature engineering, recommender systems, natural language processing and time-series analysis |
| 9 to 11 | Generative AI and Applications | GANs, large language models, applications in finance, accounting and learning and development, and AI in cybersecurity |
| 12 | Capstone Project | A one-month applied capstone on a real-world business or industry challenge |
You work hands-on with more than nine AI tools, including Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch and MLflow. On successful completion, you receive a verified digital certificate from the Asian Institute of Management, and a one-day AIM campus experience brings graduation and peer networking together. Installment and flexible finance options are available; the program advisor can take you through the payment plans.
Questions to Ask the Program Advisor Before You Enroll
Program advisors can help you match the AIM diploma to your working week. These questions give you the most useful answers:
- When do live sessions run in my time zone, and on which days?
- How is recorded content paced between live sessions?
- Can my capstone draw on a challenge from my own industry?
- Which payment plan suits my situation?
- What does a heavier week in the program involve, compared with the average of 5 to 7 hours?
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Are there AI and ML diplomas with live online classes that suit APAC time zones?
Yes. The Postgraduate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from the Asian Institute of Management is delivered primarily through live online sessions with AIM faculty, supported by recorded content. AIM teaches it from the Philippines (UTC+8), the same time as Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong and within a few hours of most Asia-Pacific cities. The program runs for 12 months at 5 to 7 hours a week.
2. Do I need coding experience to join the AIM AI and ML diploma?
No prior coding background is needed. The AIM diploma is designed for both technical and non-technical professionals, and the first two months cover programming fundamentals in Python, alongside the statistics and mathematics that machine learning builds on.
3. How much time does the AIM diploma take each week?
The AIM Postgraduate Diploma in AI and ML takes 5 to 7 hours a week over 12 months, combining live online sessions with recorded content you complete at your own pace.
4. Who will I learn alongside in a live online cohort?
In the AIM diploma, you learn alongside professionals from technology, data, analytics, engineering, consulting and business functions across Asia-Pacific, with banking, financial services, IT, and technology and telecom among the leading industries. On completion, you join a network of more than 47,000 AIM alumni in over 79 countries.
