Digital Currency Courses

Harvard University
Extension School

MGMT E-5408 Breakthrough Innovation with Blockchain Technology
https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/courses/breakthrough-innovation-blockchain-technology/25067

https://www.hbs.edu/mba/student-life/activities-government-and-clubs/Pages/club-details.aspx?name=bitcoin

Princeton University Online

https://online.princeton.edu/course/bitcoin-and-cryptocurrency-technologies

New Jersey’s Princeton University offers a blockchain related course called “Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies.” This online course offered via Coursera and addresses important questions about Bitcoin. If you are interested in knowing answers to following questions, we recommend considering it: How does Bitcoin work? What makes Bitcoin different? How secure are your Bitcoins? How anonymous are Bitcoin users? What determines the price of Bitcoins? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? What might the future hold?

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

https://online.princeton.edu/course/bitcoin-and-cryptocurrency-technologies

Stanford University

http://bitcoin.stanford.edu/

Stanford University offers a special course about blockchain called Bitcoin Engineering. It focuses on studying how to produce Bitcoin-enabled applications. You will be able to get a grasp of a well-developed introduction to Bitcoin as well as Bitcoin enabled computing.

University of Nicosia in Cyprus 

The first accredited, brick and mortar, building-based university to accept Bitcoins for tuition, and to offer degrees in Digital Currency.
http://unic.ac.cy  - University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Digitalcurrency.unic.ac.cy   - Masters Degree in Digital Currency
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8500 students at multiple campuses
Dr. Christos Vlachos, CFO of Nicosia, on RT's Max Keiser Show
https://www.youtube.com/user/MScDigitalCurrency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nk4MZMNcu0

University of Nicosia is the largest independent university of Cyprus and it offers the first Master of Science degree in Digital Currency available online. The first course in the degree “Introduction to Digital Currencies” is offered for free as an open enrolment MOOC course to anyone interested in learning about the fundamental principles of digital currency. It is taught by renowned Bitcoin experts Andreas Antonopoulos and Antonis Polemitis and includes 12 live online sessions.

University of Cumbria
United Kingdom

www.cumbria.ac.uk/AboutUs

The world's first university to accept Bitcoins for tuition

Certificate course in Sustainable Exchange
http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/cpd-and-short-courses/sustainable-exchange/

Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS)

Course fees can be paid with Bitcoin.

This university launched a free Master-level online course that focuses on the future of money. During the course, students reportedly explore the assumption somewhat prevalent in the Bitcoin community that money is best understood as an asset with an intrinsic value.

The University of Cumbria in the UK was the first public university in the UK to accept Bitcoins  (July 2014)
www.cumbria.ac.uk/AboutUs/News/Articles/201314/January
U of C also offers a course in Sustainable Exchange, as part of their Business and Computing department.

New York University (NYU) – USA

In 2014 New York University started offering blockchain classes, the first course opened was “The Law and Business of Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies.” This course is still available and explains Bitcoin and other alternative payments mechanisms. NYU students can also sign up for “Digital Currency: Revolution in Money and Payments?” This course introduces participants to digital currencies and emerging mobile payment systems.

 

Duke University – USA

Duke University, situated in Durham County of North Carolina, also offers blockchain courses. Its pioneer cryptocurrency course “Innovation, Disruption and Cryptoventures” does not simply explore transactions in Bitcoin. The idea of the course is to understand a disruptive technology and to assess its implications on how business will be conducted in the future.

 

University of California-Berkeley – USA

This university offers an open-source undergraduate cryptocurrency course for their students. At the same time, Berkeley students run organisation organises crypto meetups and host talks, developer tutorials, workshops and more. Moreover, the organisation builds side projects and conducts research using cutting-edge blockchain and crypto technologies.

 

IT University of Copenhagen – Denmark

15-18 August 2017, IT University of Copenhagen is organising Blockchain Summer School. This first ever blockchain summer school will focus on educating students in the blockchain technology to be able to develop solutions within three focal industries. The participants will learn how blockchain technology is disrupting existing business models and will gain insights in paradigmatic changes occurring from economic, organisational and computer science viewpoints.

 

Blockchain University – USA

Blockchain University situated in California combines robust academic instruction led by the most influential minds in the blockchain ecosystem with solution oriented design thinking and hands-on training. The university offers blockchain technology education for developers, managers and entrepreneurs.

 

B9 Lab Academy – UK

B9 Lab Academy offers blockchain courses for technical executives and analysts. The courses are aimed at experienced technical stakeholders introducing everything needed to understand the technology, smart contracts  and both technical and social frameworks relating to the technology.

 

Draper University  in San Mateo, California

http://draperuniversity.com/press-release-bitcoin-tuition
June 11, 2013

Draper University  in San Mateo, California
was the first university in the world to accept Bitcoin.
 

King's College in New York City is the first university in the USA to accept Bitcoins.

King's College in New York City is the first university, that is accredited and building based, to accept Bitcoin for tuition.  (June 13, 2014)
NY Times
www.tkc.edu/news/kings-first-us-college-accept-bitcoin

https://www.tkc.edu/news/kings-first-us-college-accept-bitcoin

Here is an article about King's College in the New York Times

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Washington, DC and Fairfield, Iowa

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Intermediate

 

Coming soon: Maharishi University of Management

References

https://news.coinify.com/10-universities-blockchain-courses/

The increasing demand for blockchain skills from various sectors makes blockchain an attractive subject and urges universities to add blockchain to their course list. To this end, several universities have already launched blockchain courses. We have put together a list of universities where you can learn about blockchain technology and Bitcoin, and make yourself more marketable in the eyes of potential employers.


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https://www.hbs.edu/mba/student-life/activities-government-and-clubs/Pages/club-details.aspx?name=bitcoin https://online.princeton.edu/course/bitcoin-and-cryptocurrency-technologies https://online.princeton.edu/course/bitcoin-and-cryptocurrency-technologies http://bitcoin.stanford.edu/