Coindesk recently ranked the top universities to study blockchain technology. They rated a total of 230 international institutes out of which the National University of Singapore holds the first rank as the best blockchain university due to its vast research facilities, blockchain related conventions, meet-ups, conferences, its partnerships with blockchain related entities and its FinTech Master Program that paves way for decentralized finance.
The research was carried out by the Stanford and MIT researcher Reuben Youngblom and CoinDesk’s Joe Lautzenhiser.
The second and the third spots are secured by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the University of California Berkeley respectively. While the University of Zurich, MIT, Hong Kong Polytechnic and UCL follow the ranks afterwards.
Here is the list of the best 30 universities of the world to study blockchain technology, DeFi and FinTech.
| Rank | University | Score |
| 1 | National University of Singapore | 100.00 |
| 2 | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | 97.65 |
| 3 | University of California Berkeley | 93.26 |
| 4 | University of Zurich | 91.66 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 91.57 |
| 6 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 84.30 |
| 7 | UCL | 81.54 |
| 8 | Tsinghua University | 79.20 |
| 9 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 75.30 |
| 10 | ETH Zurich | 75.04 |
| 11 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | 74.98 |
| 12 | Stanford University | 68.41 |
| 13 | UNSW Sydney | 66.29 |
| 14 | City University of Hong Kong | 66.13 |
| 15 | University of Oxford | 65.47 |
| 16 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 65.18 |
| 17 | Cornell University | 63.98 |
| 18 | Delft University of Technology | 63.85 |
| 19 | University of Hong Kong | 61.97 |
| 20 | University of Sydney | 61.48 |
| 21 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) | 60.78 |
| 22 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 60.10 |
| 23 | University of Cambridge | 58.69 |
| 24 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 58.51 |
| 25 | University of California Los Angeles | 58.40 |
| 26 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | 57.87 |
| 27 | Sun Yat-sen University | 57.18 |
| 28 | University of British Columbia | 55.80 |
| 29 | Peking University | 54.15 |
| 30 | Arizona State University | 51.86 |
Source CoinDesk
This is the second list that CoinDesk has come up with as last year they researched about the 46 U.S institutes and ranked the top 30 of them. According to CoinDesk, “Data is good. There is an absence of data on this space: Research and teaching can only get better if we track what academic institutions are offering.”
Watch in the video below the discussion about these top schools that offer FinTech and blockchain related degrees and the impact of these institutes. Reuben Youngblom, Stanford University Fellow and Cryptoeconomic Systems (MIT DCI) Managing Editor, discusses the key takeaways, including the methodology and importance of blockchain education.
