Best Universities for Blockchain 2022: University of Cambridge
An active student-run blockchain society guides this 813-year-old school to No. 37. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
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With over 100 libraries and more Nobel Prizes than any other institution, the University of Cambridge, founded in 1209, encourages its students to pursue their passions – including for blockchain – inside and outside the classroom.
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2022 Rank (+/- 2021) | University Name | Total Score | Courses | Region | Regional Rank |
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37 (down 14) | University of Cambridge | 47.30 | 4 | Europe | 8 |
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The Cambridge Blockchain Society, a student-run club, has among the most active calendar of events of the schools in the ranking. Sample events include “Nillion: Introduction to an Unhackable Decentralized Network” and “Blockchain 2020: Beyond the Hype”.
The University of Cambridge offers four courses to learn about blockchain, including the engineering course Distributed Ledger Technologies: Foundations and Applications and the business course Governance, Privacy and Discrimination Concerns with Data and Future of FinTech.