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Best Universities for Blockchain 2022: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
With 15 courses and two degree programs, the flagship of the Illinois university system sits at the No. 30 ranking. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
The flagship institution of the public University of Illinois system, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) offers two graduate-level blockchain degrees, a master's in financial engineering and a master of science in finance, with a fintech specialization. It also has 15 courses on blockchain, ranging from Principles of Blockchains, an engineering course, to Advanced Topics in Business Law.
This piece is part of CoinDesk's Education Week
Read the Full List: Best Universities for Blockchain 2022
UIUC has also hosted many events and conferences such as “Blockchain Summit: Empowering You to Manage Disruption” and “Leveraging Fintech.” Its blockchain research center, Decentralized Systems Lab, has a mission to build resilient public infrastructure for the world’s data. Its faculty director, assistant professor Andrew Miller, is also an associate director of I3C, the 10-university research center on crypto. UIUC scholars published 76 blockchain papers between 2019 and 2022, with 871 total citations.
Three student blockchain clubs, including the Cryptocurrency and Decentralized Finance Club, CryptoClub and Illini Blockchain, demonstrate UIUC student interest in the technology and its applications.
Cathy Choo
Cathy is in the penultimate class to graduate from Yale-NUS College in Singapore, where she majors in mathematics. Cathy joined the Best Universities for Blockchain team in July 2022 to apply her data research and analytics skills.
