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America's elite law schools, business schools, and computer science departments are seeing a surge of student interest in cryptocurrency coursework. Among universities offering graduate level courses, such as Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, and MIT, the courses are often oversubscribed as universities continue to put significant resources into the space.
For economists and business school professors, Bitcoin and other digital tokens have raised questions about the nature of money. The first lecture in the Berkeley class, for example, considered the development of Bitcoin against the history of money. Several business school classes are also focusing on the decentralized methods of record keeping and decision making introduced by Bitcoin. “The students in my class are from every possible discipline,” said Campbell Harvey, a professor at Duke’s business school, who is teaching a class with 231 students this semester. “They understand that this is going to disrupt many different areas of business, and they want to be the disrupters, not the disruptees.” The computer scientists, meanwhile, are digging into the cryptography that virtual currencies use to secure their wallets and transaction data, as well as the design of the distributed computer networks that make blockchains possible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/technology/cryptocurrencies-come-to-campus.html
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