Topic: Universities offering Blockchain degrees? (Read 571 times)

That's certainly true, mate. While self-learning helps, it's always best to have some sort of certification or degree that will give credibility to your resume for employers to see. Still though, the ultimate indicator of your skills would be your portfolio itself than a certification or degree from an accredited institution. Mainstream universities and colleges could start offering Blockchain-related degrees in the future, if the need arises. After all, they wouldn't want to miss an opportunity of making money. There's an online university out there called "Woolf University" which is based on Blockchain technology. It offers many degrees that are well-known in the real world today (although they don't offer Blockchain degrees yet).

Nonetheless, I believe that most Universities have been skeptical about offering Blockchain-related courses as content can be found easily online. There are a wide array of educational materials available at your fingertips online for free, which can help you turn into a professional quickly without the need for a degree. Today's most prominent figures in the crypto space (Vitalik Buterin and Andreas Antonopoulos) don't have a Blockchain-related degree but they're still considered experts in the industry. Which means that you don't necessarily need to go to a University or College to become successful in the field of crypto and Blockchain technology. Just my thoughts

Actually it depends on the person. Some wanted to learn with legit approach I mean with certain certificates and approved institution but, there are people learn in their own way. Internet is powerful and if you know how to grasp anything from it you dont need a diploma if you can manage better what professional can do. The only good thing is, you can be proud of your achievement when you have one. But for some people they learn blockchain for other purposes which primarily focus on money.

That's certainly true, mate. What employers look first, is if you have a portfolio with all the work you've done over time. This is what makes your resume stand out, above anything else. Maybe a Blockchain certification will suffice? I have seen many popular online course sites like Udemy and Coursera which offer Blockchain courses and a certificate of completion. Better yet, there are certifications provided by established organizations which makes you stand out even more from the crowd. There's the Certified Bitcoin Professional Certification (CBP), and the Certified Ethereum Developer Certification (CED), which you can obtain in order to get a better chance of applying for a Blockchain-related job. The best part, is that you can take exams online at the comfort of your home.

Rest assured, that if mainstream colleges and Universities start offering Blockchain-related degrees, there will be a "boom" in the number of Blockchain professionals within the mainstream world. After all, these institutions provide quality education that's useful for your professional career. Time will tell us, if it's cost-effective (and viable) to provide Blockchain-related degrees to the world or not. In all ends, you get to learn more about the Blockchain doing self-learning than anything else. Just my opinion

I think it makes more sense to learn on your own and/or take a course than to study an entire 4-5 year degree. Thereare so many tutorials and courses online, I recommended Dacade .org, this is no promotion, I'm learning rigth now there and I really like it.

I don't know if certificates are going to be honored by companies going to hire you if you care going to look for a job in blockchain. The teams would probably ask for your github and what you have come up prior to your application. Contributions to the industry will probably be preferred by those companies too. Udemy and the likes certificates I think is acceptable.

Blockchain is really the future for companies that has a thing to do with data and for companies located across different continents. Blockchain gives interconnected advantage for such companies.

Blokchain industry can be said to be relatively new, there are still many countries or people who are not familiar with the era of digital crypto. But I believe that in the future blokchain is very necessary and can be made as an undergraduate degree in blokchain industry.

There are so many university I've stumbled upon that are offering even scholarship for block chain technology but most of them are from Europe. University in Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden and many more

I think it's better to learn on your own, people in IT says IT moves fast and by the time you finish learning it on school it's already outdated, i don't know if this applies to blockchain but i think you can get by faster if you learn it by yourself, you can take my opinion with a grain of salt.

I'm aware. But those are just certificates which are not as great as a degree, in my own opinion. With either a Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Blockchain technology from a reputable college or University, you'll be able to stand among other professionals in the industry. Mainstream companies will give more credibility to Blockchain Experts that have graduated from a mainstream University, than those who not. We're still early to talk about this, since Blockchain is just 11 years old. I think that's a short amount of time, for someone to become an expert in the field (although Vitalik Buterin is quite knowledgeable about how Blockchain works). Over time, we'll be able to see mainstream Universities offering Blockchain degrees if the need arises. As long as there is money involved, you can expect a degree of anything today.

Nonetheless, both Udemy and Coursera seem to be solid platforms which provide serious education about Blockchain technology. They're a great choice for becoming an expert until mainstream Universities start offering Blockchain degrees to the world. So far, there's only one University (University of Nicosia) which has started offering a Master's Degree in Blockchain technology (as far as I'm aware). But I'd expect renowned Universities like Cambridge University, Cornell University, and even MIT to start offering Blockchain degrees sometime in the future.

Blockchain certificates are offered more on online video tutorials, you'd probably liked it to be video online for you can keep reviewing the video and ask the video tutor for support if you find it difficult to understand. Unless you just download the course from torrent sites you don't get support but Udemy teachers offers support when you subscribed to them.

The growing popularity of the cryptocurrency market has made the popularity of blockchain technology increasingly known and this has made many people want to learn about blockchain technology and I think it's natural that several universities offer education about blockchain. Blockchain has proven to be a safe technology for storing data and can streamline costs for companies, this will make people who have blockchain expertise will continue to be sought

I think blockchain has very bright future and most of the countries have realized its importance and started acting accordingly. Some of the colleges are providing blockchain degrees. And I believe most of the prominent colleges will follow suit as there is no alternative.

If the other universities all over the world gonna open this kind of degree, for sure it will help them to be enlightened on what blockchain really is. Plus the fact that they can spread what they learned and tell the government that this is gonna help their country in terms of the economical needs of it. I hope that this degree will be accepted or be guaranteed by the government.

I think there was a list already somewhere else but you probably should do a bit of research online rather than trust the responses here. Also,,, be careful of those scam degrees. Now there are a lot of Blockchain Certifications as well and I promise you a lot of them are pay to get,,, meaning to say you pay your fees, you will easily pass the exam or they will help you do it until you pass.

If it really is possible I will be interested in following the lecture like that, because not many people know and understand about the blockchain becomes a great job opportunity if the blockchain has been more booming than the previous year. Yeah, I also hope in many countries adopt this and open up the university with a blockchain degree.

If the demand will rise, I am pretty sure that many universities out there are thinking to launch a degree in blockchain technology because it can bring a good profit in their side especially if they will make it available via online courses. What they are waiting is the timing and the resources in launching this kind of course as it is not that easy if they lack something in their side.

I prefer online courses also so it will be available to all the individuals globally who want to take the course and get a certification of it.

as far as I know in my country there are no universities that provide blockchain majors. but I'm sure if more and more are adopting blockchain technology then universities will open a blockchain majoring. because if blockchain technology is growing we will need people who are experts in the field of blockchin. so I think it really needs a university to establish a blockchain major.

All I have seen in the nearby local college in my country that is related to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology are few seminars that only tackle the to of the ice berg. It will be great to see a more comprehensive and formal education about it and not just a part of lessons for technology-related courses.

Oxford is a renowned University within the mainstream world. I'm glad that such a reputable institution is offering Blockchain degrees online at the comfort of your own home. The space is still not mature enough, for us to see experts with widespread recognition worldwide. While degrees are starting to appear, the number of professionals in the space is still relatively low. With an ever-growing demand of Blockchain experts among businesses, and mainstream companies, education will improve like never before in the upcoming years. It's hoped that more Universities start offering Blockchain education within the mainstream world, to contribute in the growth of Blockchain professionals worldwide. Without proper education, there will be lack of experts in the space as we know it.



I know right? 10 years might not seem enough for a person to be called a "Blockchain expert" or "Blockchain professional", as there's still a lot to learn these days. After all, Blockchain is still fairly new to the world. It might seem that Universities offering Blockchain degrees are looking for a quick buck. But believe me, every University does this today. There's nearly a degree for almost anything in life. If there's demand for Blockchain related courses and certifications, then I don't see a reason why these educational institutions should provide such offerings in the first place. Time will tell us whenever the idea of providing Blockchain degrees will be successful or not. We need quality education in order to create talented people with Blockchain skills that would help the space improve for the better.

I think that it is not a matter of certificates but of knowledge itself because diplomas may carry little knowledge, but it depends on the institution where you received these diplomas.

you must understand that the Studying/implementation of blockchain technologies and cryptography and other technical sciences does not give any guarantees that Bitcoin will be more popular or guarantees that cryptocurrency prices will rise. Technologies can be used without any cryptocurrencies. you should study more deeply what blockchain is and then you will understand that these are different things

I think a whole degree would be useless wouldn't it be? I mean there are software developers in the world who all mostly went to software engineering or computer engineering classes and those people could have like "blockchain 101" and maybe even "blockchain 201" the next semester and finish that? That would make more sense than having a whole 4 year degree honestly, even a 2 year one looks too much, how the hell would you spend 2 whole years, possible around 30 classes each taking 3-4 months about blockchain?

It is just a 10 year old design (blockchain) that still is improving like hell so I think even putting it into software classes would be very dangerous since whatever you are teaching in that class today might be old news by the time you finish with the class.

In my country, many Blockchain learning programs are starting but until now, this program still has very few participants because people do not realize the potential of this technology. I believe that in the next few years, Blockchain will probably apply a lot to our daily life and if you have good knowledge in this field, you will surely easily get a job and have a very high salary.

However, what needs to be done is to apply blockchain to schools and to see this as a compulsory subject because if you do that, people will start to learn more about this field.

I have read some of the articles that some colleges in and out of my countries are offering Blockchain Technology as one of their cources in their school. This a bold statements that Blockchain Techonlogy will have an integral part in future ventures of the community. It a sign as well that will see bitcoin goes off in a promising value example that is BITCOIN in IRAN is a high as $29,000 if I am not mistaken.

It is natural that you have never heard of the University of Nicosia and their Masters Degree in Blockchain technology, because blockchain technology universities do not exist in all countries, including in the country I am in.

i have never heard about it. i am pretty sure that there is no such a degree in my country. But what you are talking about is really interesting. It is also benefiticial for all the blockchain and crypto ecosystem.

Well i think in this times we should really consider getting our attention to blockchain, specially those people who are not aware of this kind of system because this will be our future so investing time and money on degrees in blockchain will really give you lots of opportunities and also not many are interested in that so it means more opportunity outside so i hope more countries will consider this and more universities with blockchain degrees will rise.

To be honest, I have never heard about University of Nicosia and their Master's Degree in Blockchain technology, but it is great people have an option to learn more about blockchain technology in the Universities.

Basicaly blockchain its not always for financial , that why china president supporting blockchain technology , blockchain is for future.
Of course , no wonder sooner or later major universities will have a Master's Degree in Blockchain technology.

I first heard this info, and I hope it really exists. Because it is supposed to blockchain or other related open new sub-classes and also the courses offered must be the whole cryptocurrency and born pure people or figures who were really born from here, not just as a side. It is time for this technology to develop and be noticed, I hope things like that will continue to be noticed and expanded.

Haven't heard of a university that offers a degree in blockchain. But some schools are giving lessons and seminars about blockchain technology but not really a degree. Right now, I don't think we need a degree. What we need is it to be taught in universities, even just the basics so students can be aware of it. Then after people recognizes it, then perhaps universities can widen the knowledge about blockchain.

Why go to university to study?

Coursera degrees has a lot of recognition these days as well, and you might as well study online given the fact that you'll have the most up to date statistics and information (given the amount of forks and volatility in the current marketplace).

Traditional educational institutions doesn't seem like the best way to utilise your time if you're serious about blockchain. In fact, most crypto juggernauts never took a course I'm sure.

I only know specifically online only, and do not know more about universities that have majored in blockchain technology. maybe because in my country there is no major in the blockchain system making me not know more about the information available about the development of this technology in the world of education.

That's strange indeed, but it was aiming the highest potential for several young people whom able to gain good and sustainable education towards blockchain. An education can't be removed from us, and it was going to be propagated as results of hard work. Having this kind of degree will put us to strong foundation for future financial stability for everybody individuals.

well,some time ago I saw an article at a university giving graduation and learning about blockchain and in my opinion technology like blockchain must be good studied because if everyone can use this technology it can provide convenience when making transactions for the future.

As far as I know there are no university as of now who are offering a blockchain degrees and I think it is a long process before it will be implemented because all we know that in many countries,governmemt are against crypto so it is hard to propose this degree because universities are connecred to government so it ia very complicated.

Thats good to hear, many people want to learn more about blockchain and some universities or institutions started to make some events or seminars in this field. But I think, 2-3 years from now all of the univesrities started offering blockchain technologoy and this job will be in-demand when the time comes.

Sounds strange in the world of education, but I'm sure if there are universities that open the field of blockchain then this will attract the interest of many prospective students. So far as I know that blockchain courses are rarely found, not even available. I hope there will be action from blockchain experts and other developers to share their knowledge and also be a pioneer to establish educational institutions for blockchain.

I haven't checked the Udemy lately, now I see I have to take the Blockchain course from there. I haven't seen any university that offers a degree for Blockchain, though in 2018 I saw another thread like this that some university listed the Blockchain chapter in their books! All of these are great news for every crypto supporter and day by day Blockchain expert and dev will be recognized widely! I can't help you with this matter but thank you for letting us about this degree!

its kinda funny to think of a university offering a degree in blockchain, man the industry is only 10 years old! who has the EGO to call themselves a teacher already? haha
maybe Antonopolis could teach a degree on it    people just cashing in tho, degree in blockchain...lol
the sadddest part is now theres going to be "official accreditations" , like who makes these rules?  greed is all.   greed is making the rules it seems : /

Not universities offering blockchain degree right now because they still looking reason why have to make blcockhain become most important subject in universities, I think bitcoin need to show up their self with higher price firstly and make many people will look with bitcoin as most expensive and most profitable investment assets before can adopted in many universities in the world.

yes i agree with you op with the increasing number of industries, companies, banks and governments that adopt the blockchain. then we need human resources who can create and operate blockchain technology. and very good if in the future there will be universities that can provide course material about blockchain. As far as I know, there are already 3 universities that have studied and developed the blockchain, namely MIT, Stanford University and London College University.

There are many universities which offer Blockchain degree right now
even top universities like Oxford, Berkeley, princeton. it would make many people who skillfull in this field

I just think that this industry would be big in the future
Im moving forward what whould happen, so excited!

I think it just rumors but if happen I'm happy with that. Until now bitcoin still reject by many countries/ people but if blockchain accept as legal technology/ education it will bring positive impact into bitcoin. There's no respond from education world about blockchain, they only interesting not taking. I hope Universities will release a good respond and take the technology as part of education.

I have heard that several universities have been majoring in blockchain technology since 2017.
Indeed, this department will be very promising for graduates later to work or become a developer of a crypto project.
Maybe with a department like this can also be the first step for the university world to increasingly plunge and develop the blockchain according to their respective ideas.

I had no idea, so many places offer certifications. But as this space is so huge it's hard to believe that these would cover a lot. Even experts seem to think that they have still lot to learn on crypto space.

https://hackernoon.com/7-universities-offering-online-blockchain-cryptocurrency-and-fintech-education-1cebb4798272

I vote for oxford and when you can complet all of the courses and you will get certification if you are a blockchain expert from oxford and i think this will be very helpful. Especially when it comes from the top rated universities just like oxford and so many companies (blockchain) will take it as a big value. 

Coursera is a very good online university. I took a lot of courses on this platform but they were not connected with the blockchain. if you really found on this site any opportunities to get an online education in the field of blockchain, then I think you can trust them. the question is why do you need all this? if you want to get a good job, then online certificates are not appreciated in the workplace. best to study offline at university

Really? I am not informed that there are university gives blockchain degrees. I was totally shocked and amazed it may totally sound ignorant but I really dont know about this information so thanks to you pal coz I gained knowledge about blockchains today. And yes its good to take online courses nowadays because it is less hassle and less effort. You can learn online anytime and anywhere.

I've toppled with a few online course sites like Coursera and Udemy which offer certificates of completion for the field of Blockchain. I'm aware of a mainstream University called the "University of Nicosia" which is offering a Master's Degree in Blockchain technology. But so far, prominent Universities within the mainstream world haven't offered Blockchain degrees yet. I'm sure that many Universities will start offering this since Blockchain technology is the future of finance. It's no secret that many businesses and companies are seeking talent in Blockchain tech. Having a degree in Blockchain, would allow you to gain recognition within the mainstream world.

Which is why, I'm on the hunt for Universities which are offering Blockchain degrees these days. I'd prefer to take courses online than physically for many obvious reasons. A comprehensive list of Universities offering Blockchain degrees would be helpful. Thanks in advance