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Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:

Coinbase reported that 42% of the world's top 50 universities now offer at least one course on cryptocurrency or blockchain. University students are clamoring for more courses about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

According to the Coinbase survey conducted in partnership with Qriously, 21 of the top 50 U.S. universities, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report, now offer a class on blockchain technology or cryptocurrency, and at least 11 colleges offer more than one.

Students are flocking to classes on cryptocurrency and blockchain? - the "distributed ledger" technology that makes decentralized financial systems work - motivated in part by a hot job market for graduates with training in those fields, it said.

The analysis found that 42% of the top 50 universities offer at least one class on blockchain or cryptocurrency, and 22% offer more than one. Expanding the results to include longstanding foundational classes on cryptography, 7% of universities offer at least one crypto-related class.

Blockchain and cryptocurrency courses are most prominent in the U.S. Only five of the 18 international universities on the list, or 27%, offer at least one class on blockchain or cryptocurrency. And only two - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and National University of Singapore - offer more than one.

Coinbase also says that Stanford tops the list with the highest number. Stanford launched its Center for Bloc......................

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