Best Universities for Blockchain 2022: Carnegie Mellon University

Given Carnegie Mellon’s reputation innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration, the number of blockchain initiatives popping up around the university, both institutionally and from the student body, make sense.

2022 Rank
(+/- 2021)

University Name

Total
Score

Courses

Region

Regional
Rank

22
(+11)

Carnegie Mellon University

56

14

North America

7

The Tepper School of Business at CMU created a blockchain initiative “to foster innovations in the design, use, ethics, and regulation of decentralized, blockchain-based technologies. It is the hub for blockchain thought leadership at CMU and is led by Ariel Zetlin-Jones, associate professor of economics.

Cylab,CMU’s security and privacy research institute, launched the CMU Secure Blockchain Initiative, a multi-year research program, to focus on existing challenges in the blockchain space such as scalability and cryptography. Global payments company Ripple and cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com became founding sponsors this spring.

The university offers a master of science in computational finance as well as 14 several courses pertaining to blockchain technology.

In August, the foundation for cryptocurrency protocol Algorand named Carnegie Mellon an Algorand Center of Excellance (ACE). The Algorand Foundation will allocate a portion of its $50 million investment to Carnegie Mellon over the next five years.