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Erica StanfordInternational Universities with Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Courses
Updated: Nov 16, 2021
Crypto's going mainstream — and the likes of crypto, and blockchain jobs are increasingly in demand worldwide. While you do not need a crypto-related degree to get a job in the field, universities around the world went ahead and started to offer it anyway.
Here's a list of the universities and the courses available for you to take:
Dublin City University, Ireland
Course: MS Blockchain - Distributed Ledger Technologies
Course length: 2 years
100% online
€5,500
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Course: Financial Applications of Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers
Part of the Financial Engineering Master’s Degree
1 Semester
Ranked by Coinbase as the 5th best crypto educational institution worldwide and the best in Europe
EPFL researchers received great applause for designing a low-energy equivalent of Bitcoin
Resources: Cryptocurrencies@EPFL
EU Business School - Geneva, Switzerland
Course: MBA Blockchain Management
Course length: 1 year
Cost: €17,400
100% online
National University of Singapore
One of the most renowned educational facilities in Asia for research, course diversity, and academic excellence
Also ranked by Coinbase as one of the top universities for crypto studies
Facility: NUS FinTech Lab - Co-funded by Ripple’s UBRI
Course: NUS FinTechSG Programme
Course length: 8 weeks study, 9-12 months placement
Cost: Free for Singaporeans, undisclosed for international applicants
Community: CRYSTAL - A world-leading educational think-tank and community for Blockchain research and technology
Offers a wide range of courses related to FinTech and financial services, as well as a couple of Blockchain-specific courses:
100% online
Course length: 2 days
Cost: SG$1,819 (around £1,000)
100% online
Course length: 1 day
CostL SG$909 (around £500)
RMIT University (Melbourne)
Course length: 3 years full time
In-person study
Course length: 1.5 years
Cost: AU$32,640
In-person study
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)
Ranked second-best educational facility for crypto in Europe and 8th in the world by Coinbase.
Seminar: Current Topics in Cryptography
Course: Cryptographic Protocols
Undergraduate module
1 Semester
Undergraduate module
1 Semester
Seminar: Blockchain Security
Research: ETH Zurich professors and researchers discovered an improvement to cryptocurrency
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ranked by Coinbase as the third-best European university for crypto studies, and the 9th best in the world
Postgraduate module
1 Semester
Course: Blockchain and New Technologies in Corporate and Capital Market Law
Postgraduate module
1 Semester
Seminar: Blockchain Economics
Facility: The European Blockchain Center
Professor: Roman Beck
Universidad Europea Madrid
Course: Fintech and Blockchain Master
100% online (Spanish language only)
Course length: 6 months
Partnered with Telefónica to develop a graduate degree in Payment, Bitcoin, and Blockchain
Partnered with IBM to create a Business & Tech School which will help to drive Blockchain studies further
University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Reputation for being progressive on cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology
Boasts 10 courses that embrace digital currency, FinTech, crypto, and more
Full Master’s Degree
Course length: 1.5 years
Cost: €9,990
World-first Master’s degree on this theme
Course length: 1 calendar year / 3 semesters
Cost: €12,960
Online certification
Course length: 18 weeks
Cost: €4,860
Online certification
Course length: 18 weeks
Cost: €4,860
Online certification
Course length: 18 weeks
Cost: €4,860
100% online
Course length: 6 weeks
Cost: €2,000
8-10 hours per week
100% online
6 weeks
10 hours per week
Cost: Undisclosed
100% online
6 weeks
5-8 hours per week
Cost: €2,000
Introduction to Digital Currencies - this is a free online course with more than 45,000 students currently enrolled and is taught by world-famous cryptocurrency expert Andreas Antonopolous
Course length: 12 weeks
UoN accepts Bitcoin as a payment method for tuition
University of Malta
Course: MS Blockchain - Distributed Ledger Technologies
Course length: 1 year
100% online
Cost: €10,000
Student can choose a specialism:
MS Blockchain & DLT (Business & Finance)
MS Blockchain & DLT (Law & Regulation)
MS Blockchain & DLT (Information & Communication Technology)
University of Oxford, England
Publishes many reports and articles on the Blockchain, cryptocurrency, and FinTech, for example
Courses:
100% online
Short course
100% online
Course length: 6 weeks
Cost: £2,650
Currently online
Cost: £495
Course length: 1 day
Certificate of attendance
Currently online
Cost: £1,895
In person
Cost: £4,995
Course length: 2 weeks
Oxford is most interested in navigating disruption and how the blockchain can affect big pharma, energy, telecoms, banking, and economics
Facility: University College Oxford Blockchain Research Centre
In 2020, Oxford and Cambridge competed in a crypto-trading competition - read more. The boat race, which these two universities typically compete in, is now sponsored by US cryptocurrency exchange Gemini
The University of Oxford has also partnered with VeChain (VET)