The Top Universities for Blockchain by CoinDesk 2021

CoinDesk’s rankings cover courses, research output, campus blockchain offerings (like student clubs and research centers), employment outcomes, academic reputation and cost.

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This year’s ranking rates 230 schools internationally, expanding the sample from just U.S. schools in our first university ranking last year.

Overall, the National University of Singapore is in first place as a result of its multiple blockchain research centers, its frequently hosted blockchain-themed conferences, its many blockchain clubs, its company partnerships and its masters program in digital financial technology.

Also representing Asia in the top 10 are Hong Kong Polytechnic, Tsinghua University and Chinese University of Hong Kong. RMIT in Melbourne comes second while representing Europe are the University of Zurich, UCL and ETH Zurich.

The top U.S schools are Berkeley (third) and MIT (fifth). Cornell, which was second last year, is now in 17th place. Stanford, which placed fourth in 2020, is now in 12th. Harvard, which was fifth last year, is now 49th, reflecting stronger competition this time, and that schools with strong overall reputations aren’t always the best performers when it comes to blockchain.

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Place	School	Points
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
31	Technical University of Munich	51.78
32	University of Edinburgh	51.77
33	Carnegie Mellon University	51.10
34	University of Melbourne	50.95
35	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	50.77
36	Georgetown University	50.40
37	Fudan University	49.95
38	University of Southern California	49.57
39	Korea University	48.85
40	Imperial College London	48.59
41	New York University	48.55
42	Tokyo Institute of Technology	47.37
43	University of Warwick	47.19
44	Fordham University	46.89
45	Columbia University	46.46
46	Seoul National University	45.72
47	King Abdulaziz University	45.59
48	Monash University	44.05
49	Harvard University	43.89
50	Zhejiang University	43.37
51	University of Manchester	43.31
52	University of Pennsylvania	43.01
53	Yonsei University	42.93
54	Rutgers University	42.67
55	University of Oslo	42.48
56	University of Amsterdam	41.96
57	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	41.34
58	Aarhus University	41.23
59	King’s College	40.96
60	Wageningen University & Research	40.84
61	Osaka University	40.58
62	University of California Davis	40.46
63	University of Tokyo	39.96
64	University of Florida	39.62
65	University of Toronto	39.57
66	Princeton University	39.10
67	University of Science and Technology of China	38.93
68	National Taiwan University	38.54
69	University of Geneva	38.20
70	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	37.94
71	Georgia Institute of Technology	37.88
72	University of Michigan	37.86
73	Utrecht University	37.69
74	Michigan State University	37.61
75	University of Arkansas	37.39
76	University of Chicago	37.02
77	Technical University of Denmark	37.00
78	McGill University	36.87
79	University of Texas at Austin	36.86
80	KU Leuven	36.75
81	Stony Brook University	35.22
82	Erasmus University Rotterdam	34.66
83	University of California San Diego	34.64
84	University of Glasgow	34.38
85	University of Auckland	34.17
86	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	34.12
87	London School of Economics and Political Science	33.93
88	Northwestern University	33.90
89	Northeastern University	33.61
90	University of Adelaide	33.43
91	University of Western Australia	33.05
92	University at Buffalo SUNY	32.64
93	Ghent University	32.63
94	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	32.01
95	University of Barcelona	31.90
96	Sorbonne University	31.71
97	Temple University	31.63
98	Pennsylvania State University	31.58
99	University of Massachusetts	31.54
100	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	31.48
101	University of Southampton	31.44
102	University of Tübingen	31.11
103	Boston University	31.00
104	University of Sheffield	30.99
105	Purdue University	30.95
106	University of Groningen	30.93
107	University of Connecticut	30.70
108	Université de Paris	30.68
109	University of Notre Dame	30.62
110	University of Washington	30.33
111	Universidad de Buenos Aires	30.24
112	Université Paris-Saclay	30.23
113	Kyoto University	29.97
114	University of Bonn	29.92
115	Lehigh University	29.61
116	University of Basel	29.55
117	University of California Santa Barbara	29.53
118	Virginia Tech	29.48
119	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	29.45
120	University of Freiburg	29.40
121	California Institute of Technology	29.23
122	University of Helsinki	29.21
123	University of Copenhagen	29.09
124	University of Bristol	29.05
125	Lomonosov Moscow State University	28.99
126	Universiti Malaya	28.80
127	Stockholm University	28.76
128	Australian National University	28.33
129	University of Arizona	28.30
130	Ludwig Maximilians Universität München	28.22
131	VU University Amsterdam	28.16
132	Paris Sciences et Lettres PSL Research University Paris	27.89
133	University of Queensland	27.78
134	North Carolina State University	27.67
135	University of California Santa Cruz	27.37
136	University of Birmingham	27.12
137	Boston College	27.07
138	University of Pittsburgh	27.06
139	Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin	26.84
140	Yale University	26.60
141	LMU Munich	26.48
142	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	26.33
143	University of California Irvine	26.25
144	Weizmann Institute of Science	26.06
145	Tohoku University	25.87
146	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	25.52
147	Syracuse University	25.34
148	Tufts University	25.34
149	Duke University	25.34
150	Binghamton University SUNY	25.34
151	Uppsala University	25.20
152	University of Cape Town	25.00
153	UCSF	24.82
154	Brown University	24.62
155	Leiden University	24.56
156	University of North Carolina	24.27
157	University of Wisconsin	24.15
158	McMaster University	23.92
159	University of Leeds	23.92
160	Texas A&M University	23.81
161	CU Boulder	23.77
162	Johns Hopkins University	23.75
163	Ohio State University	23.46
164	University of Minnesota	23.41
165	Florida State University	23.08
166	Indiana University	23.04
167	Durham University	23.03
168	Emory University	22.42
169	University of New Mexico	22.32
170	Dartmouth College	22.20
171	Nagoya University	22.17
172	University of Houston	22.08
173	Lund University	21.77
174	University of Maryland	21.60
175	Case Western Reserve University	20.17
176	University of Montreal	19.34
177	University of Illinois at Chicago	18.38
178	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	18.10
179	University of Georgia	18.05
180	Rockefeller University	17.47
181	University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	17.23
182	George Washington University	17.15
183	Karolinska Institute	17.05
184	Vanderbilt University	16.79
185	Tulane University	16.60
186	École Polytechnique (France)	15.94
187	University of St. Andrews	15.78
188	Wake Forest University	14.50
189	University of Miami	14.50
190	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	14.04
191	Rice University	13.81
192	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	13.75
193	Washington University in St. Louis	13.68
194	Santa Clara University	13.18
195	Heidelberg University	13.01
196	University of Rochester	13.00
197	Southern Methodist University	12.62
198	Villanova University	12.53
199	Loyola Marymount University	12.51
200	Clemson University	10.35
201	University of Virginia	10.18
202	William & Mary	9.57
203	Pepperdine University	9.25
204	Scripps College	7.80
205	Drexel University	7.58
206	Smith College	7.45
207	Brandeis University	5.91
208	Wellesley College	4.75
209	Davidson College	2.02
210	Grinnell College	1.73
211	Bryn Mawr College	1.71
212	Swarthmore College	1.45
213	Bates College	1.41
214	Middlebury College	1.39
215	Lafayette College	1.37
216	Pomona College	1.27
217	Mount Holyoke College	1.27
218	Bowdoin College	1.25
219	Claremont McKenna College	1.22
220	Hamilton College	1.21
221	Haverford College	1.16
222	Carleton College	1.07
223	Colgate University	0.85
224	Washington and Lee University	0.79
225	Amherst College	0.75
226	University of Richmond	0.72
227	Williams College	0.58
228	Barnard College	0.40
229	Wesleyan University	0.12
230	Vassar College	0.00

More about Top Universities for Blockchain by CoinDesk

This is the second year CoinDesk has done these rankings. Last year we tracked 46 U.S. schools, and ranked the top 30. This year, we tracked 230 schools internationally.

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.

We hope these rankings prompts the sharing of best practices in teaching and other campus offerings. We profile the top 30 schools here, and invite those and other schools to share with the world what they are doing. We want to hear from you.

Research was led by Reuben Youngblom, a researcher from Stanford and MIT, along with CoinDesk’s Joe Lautzenhiser. To assess the rankings, they scoured publicly available sources including course catalogues, program prospectuses, social media channels, club web page the Clarivate Web of Science, and devised an online survey where academics, students and stakeholders could rate the offerings at their schools and their competitors.

Mindful that the cost of university education varies wildly, this year we introduced a metric that compares the unsubsidized tuition costs against the average cost of living in the region in which the school is located.

Source: CoinDesk