Faculty of the future. Where to learn blockchain and cryptocurrencies?
More and more universities around the world are offering now new industry courses. The demand for education on the blockchain is just growing: specialists are looking for opportunities to fill the gap in skills and keep up with the development and regulation of popular technology. Nowadays universities or other educational institutions offering blockchain courses are quite seldom on a global scale. However, the situation is changing for the better. In the US, this process is developing very rapidly, as well as in other countries.
Recent studies have shown that almost half of the world's top 50 universities offer at least one blockchain and cryptocurrency course. Somewhere these are full courses, and somewhere these are separate subjects that are included in other programs. If few years ago the number of students at the very first of them was comparable to the school class, today university audiences are crowding from those who want to gain knowledge in a promising innovative field. The largest selection of cryptocurrency courses is provided at Stanford and Cornwall University.
Stanford has as many as seventeen courses available at five faculties, so this is by far one of the best universities to date with a focus on blockchain technology. They offer a diverse approach - both full-time and online courses.
Even more - such courses teach not only at computer science departments, but also at many others - from anthropology and history to politics and finance. This is explained by the potential of using blockchain in completely different areas of our lives.
Universities are creating research centers and courses in response to increased demand from students, who, in their turn see very high demand from employers. Representatives of universities say that specialists in blockchain, cryptography and cryptocurrencies do not have to look for work at all - business sector itself offers them jobs.
To get this type of education you needn't even go to university sometimes. Famous online education sites, such as Coursera, edX, Udacity, Udemy, class-central.com and others, offer many (including free) courses on the basics of cryptography and specialized areas of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Among the lecturers of online courses you can also meet the teachers of world top universities.
Here is a selection of programs in English and Russian, where it’s not too late to sign up.
Online English Courses
Using Cryptography Correctly, Stanford
Duration: 60-day access to online materials + exam
Cost: $ 495
Blockchain Technologies: Business Innovation and Application, MIT
Duration: 6 weeks
Cost: $ 3,500
Breakthrough Innovation with Blockchain Technology, Harvard University
Duration: 13 weeks for 2 hours
Cost: $ 2,750
Blockchain for Business, Cornell University
Duration: 2 weeks for 3-5 hours
Cryptocurrency and Disruption, London School of Economics and Political Science
Duration: 8 weeks for 7-10 hours
Cost: £ 1,900
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, Princeton University and Coursera
Duration: 11 weeks, 1.5-4 hours each
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Today, “blockchain engineering” takes the second place in the list of the most demanded skills in the labor market.
For example, a blockchain developer in the USA earns up to $ 130 thousand a year, in Switzerland thanks to the active development of the ICO industry from $ 120 to $ 180 thousand, in the UK - $ 50-60 thousand in start-ups and $ 90– $ 140 thousand in large companies . The number of vacancies related to blockchain, cryptocurrencies and DLT has grown 4 times in 2019 and continues to increase in 2020. This trend is easily explained - blockchain specialists are required in new firms that continue to appear, and even more so in large corporations that plan to implement blockchain. So now, perhaps, it's time to learn. Come learn new technologies and build the world of the future with ECOS!