2018 is shaping up to be the year of bitcoin in academia as more and more institutes for higher education enter the field. The latest example comes from a number of top ranked business schools in the US that are expanding their offering due to student demands.
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Competitive Advantage
A group of students petitioned the school’s leadership to add the full-time class as before it only covered the field on a pop-up basis. Once Stanford opened the class to registration the wider demand was confirmed as it was closed with over fifty candidates on the waiting list.
Susan Athey, the technology professor who will teach the new class, commented to CNBC: “The fluctuations in the prices have everyone mesmerized: Just how did this happen? Many people have gone boom or bust and that’s, of course, exciting, attracts a lot of interest and motivates people to understand what’s going on.”
Critical Mass Achieved
It’s not just students that are asking for more classes but industry as well. John Jacobs, executive director of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, revealed he is “constantly” getting calls from Wall Street and consulting firms’ recruiters saying, “You need to train them. We need people to understand how to apply blockchain technology.” He added that: “Any world-class program is going to have to equip students in this field to compete. It’s everywhere we turn around.”
As we previously reported, other universities located in financial centers are such as Chicago and New York, have also recently begun responding to students’ demands for bitcoin education.
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