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.

PlaceSchoolPoints
1National University of Singapore100.00
2Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology97.65
3University of California Berkeley93.26
4University of Zurich91.66
5Massachusetts Institute of Technology91.57
6Hong Kong Polytechnic University84.30
7UCL81.54
8Tsinghua University79.20
9Chinese University of Hong Kong75.30
10ETH Zurich75.04
11Nanyang Technological University, Singapore74.98
12Stanford University68.41
13UNSW Sydney66.29
14City University of Hong Kong66.13
15University of Oxford65.47
16Shanghai Jiao Tong University65.18
17Cornell University63.98
18Delft University of Technology63.85
19University of Hong Kong61.97
20University of Sydney61.48
21École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)60.78
22University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign60.10
23University of Cambridge58.69
24Hong Kong University of Science and Technology58.51
25University of California Los Angeles58.40
26Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology57.87
27Sun Yat-sen University57.18
28University of British Columbia55.80
29Peking University54.15
30Arizona State University51.86
31Technical University of Munich51.78
32University of Edinburgh51.77
33Carnegie Mellon University51.10
34University of Melbourne50.95
35Worcester Polytechnic Institute50.77
36Georgetown University50.40
37Fudan University49.95
38University of Southern California49.57
39Korea University48.85
40Imperial College London48.59
41New York University48.55
42Tokyo Institute of Technology47.37
43University of Warwick47.19
44Fordham University46.89
45Columbia University46.46
46Seoul National University45.72
47King Abdulaziz University45.59
48Monash University44.05
49Harvard University43.89
50Zhejiang University43.37
51University of Manchester43.31
52University of Pennsylvania43.01
53Yonsei University42.93
54Rutgers University42.67
55University of Oslo42.48
56University of Amsterdam41.96
57Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)41.34
58Aarhus University41.23
59King’s College40.96
60Wageningen University & Research40.84
61Osaka University40.58
62University of California Davis40.46
63University of Tokyo39.96
64University of Florida39.62
65University of Toronto39.57
66Princeton University39.10
67University of Science and Technology of China38.93
68National Taiwan University38.54
69University of Geneva38.20
70Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin37.94
71Georgia Institute of Technology37.88
72University of Michigan37.86
73Utrecht University37.69
74Michigan State University37.61
75University of Arkansas37.39
76University of Chicago37.02
77Technical University of Denmark37.00
78McGill University36.87
79University of Texas at Austin36.86
80KU Leuven36.75
81Stony Brook University35.22
82Erasmus University Rotterdam34.66
83University of California San Diego34.64
84University of Glasgow34.38
85University of Auckland34.17
86Institut Polytechnique de Paris34.12
87London School of Economics and Political Science33.93
88Northwestern University33.90
89Northeastern University33.61
90University of Adelaide33.43
91University of Western Australia33.05
92University at Buffalo SUNY32.64
93Ghent University32.63
94Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)32.01
95University of Barcelona31.90
96Sorbonne University31.71
97Temple University31.63
98Pennsylvania State University31.58
99University of Massachusetts31.54
100Technion-Israel Institute of Technology31.48
101University of Southampton31.44
102University of Tübingen31.11
103Boston University31.00
104University of Sheffield30.99
105Purdue University30.95
106University of Groningen30.93
107University of Connecticut30.70
108Université de Paris30.68
109University of Notre Dame30.62
110University of Washington30.33
111Universidad de Buenos Aires30.24
112Université Paris-Saclay30.23
113Kyoto University29.97
114University of Bonn29.92
115Lehigh University29.61
116University of Basel29.55
117University of California Santa Barbara29.53
118Virginia Tech29.48
119KTH Royal Institute of Technology29.45
120University of Freiburg29.40
121California Institute of Technology29.23
122University of Helsinki29.21
123University of Copenhagen29.09
124University of Bristol29.05
125Lomonosov Moscow State University28.99
126Universiti Malaya28.80
127Stockholm University28.76
128Australian National University28.33
129University of Arizona28.30
130Ludwig Maximilians Universität München28.22
131VU University Amsterdam28.16
132Paris Sciences et Lettres PSL Research University Paris27.89
133University of Queensland27.78
134North Carolina State University27.67
135University of California Santa Cruz27.37
136University of Birmingham27.12
137Boston College27.07
138University of Pittsburgh27.06
139Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin26.84
140Yale University26.60
141LMU Munich26.48
142Hebrew University of Jerusalem26.33
143University of California Irvine26.25
144Weizmann Institute of Science26.06
145Tohoku University25.87
146Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg25.52
147Syracuse University25.34
148Tufts University25.34
149Duke University25.34
150Binghamton University SUNY25.34
151Uppsala University25.20
152University of Cape Town25.00
153UCSF24.82
154Brown University24.62
155Leiden University24.56
156University of North Carolina24.27
157University of Wisconsin24.15
158McMaster University23.92
159University of Leeds23.92
160Texas A&M University23.81
161CU Boulder23.77
162Johns Hopkins University23.75
163Ohio State University23.46
164University of Minnesota23.41
165Florida State University23.08
166Indiana University23.04
167Durham University23.03
168Emory University22.42
169University of New Mexico22.32
170Dartmouth College22.20
171Nagoya University22.17
172University of Houston22.08
173Lund University21.77
174University of Maryland21.60
175Case Western Reserve University20.17
176University of Montreal19.34
177University of Illinois at Chicago18.38
178Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai18.10
179University of Georgia18.05
180Rockefeller University17.47
181University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center17.23
182George Washington University17.15
183Karolinska Institute17.05
184Vanderbilt University16.79
185Tulane University16.60
186École Polytechnique (France)15.94
187University of St. Andrews15.78
188Wake Forest University14.50
189University of Miami14.50
190The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas14.04
191Rice University13.81
192Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute13.75
193Washington University in St. Louis13.68
194Santa Clara University13.18
195Heidelberg University13.01
196University of Rochester13.00
197Southern Methodist University12.62
198Villanova University12.53
199Loyola Marymount University12.51
200Clemson University10.35
201University of Virginia10.18
202William & Mary9.57
203Pepperdine University9.25
204Scripps College7.80
205Drexel University7.58
206Smith College7.45
207Brandeis University5.91
208Wellesley College4.75
209Davidson College2.02
210Grinnell College1.73
211Bryn Mawr College1.71
212Swarthmore College1.45
213Bates College1.41
214Middlebury College1.39
215Lafayette College1.37
216Pomona College1.27
217Mount Holyoke College1.27
218Bowdoin College1.25
219Claremont McKenna College1.22
220Hamilton College1.21
221Haverford College1.16
222Carleton College1.07
223Colgate University0.85
224Washington and Lee University0.79
225Amherst College0.75
226University of Richmond0.72
227Williams College0.58
228Barnard College0.40
229Wesleyan University0.12
230Vassar College0.00

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.