Forex Market Exchange : BLOCKCHAIN courses are included in programs of three business schools in the USA

With the increasing demand for blockchain professionals, business schools at major universities in the U.S. are including courses in this technology in their study. Georgetown, Wharton and Stanford have already announced the opening this year of courses on decentralized accounting technology and their applications, including the Criptomonedas.

With different approaches, the courses planned for this year in the MBA (the acronym of Master in Business Administration, which translated into Spanish is master in Business Administration) of the three universities mentioned, range from one centered in Criptomonedas – Stanford – until the seminar that will be dictated this spring at the McDonough School of Business (MSB) at Georgetown University, which focuses more on fintech and blockchain technology.

The Georgetown MSB will introduce an elective subject focused on how financial technology, better known as fintech, along with blockchain, act as disruptors in financial systems. This subject can be studied by all students who start an MBA, regardless of the specialty. The objectives of the course include understanding the history and evolution of fintech and blockchain, as well as their applications and processes.

John Jacobs, the executive director of the Center for Financial markets and Policy, is to conduct the course in conjunction with Perianne Boring, founder and president of the Digital Chamber of Commerce (CDC). The interest of the students in fintech, as demonstrated by the founding of the Georgetown Fintech Club, was one of the major boosters of the new elective, says Jacobs.

In the case of Stanford University, it was the students who asked for the inclusion of a course on Criptomonedas in the MBA, through a letter sent last year to the dean of the school. For the course that begins in May, more inscriptions were received from which it allowed the expected capacity, says Professor Susan Athey

Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) a prestigious business school, whose MBA ranks first in Forbes ' annual ranking, will also add this year the "Blockchain, Criptomonedas and decentralized accounting technology (DLT)" Course, by of Kevin Werbach, who argues that there is a critical mass of students who need to acquire skills on blockchain and Criptomonedas, from a business point of view. In conversation with CriptoNoticias, Werbach referred to the new subject.

Blockchain has already constituted a phenomenon for the immediate future, says the teacher. "Five years from now there won't be many business schools that don't offer similar classes," says Werbach.

Criptomonedas's record market valuation in 2017 resulted in a major boost to the demand for blockchain professionals, but it is not the only factor, also the growth of blockchain applications in virtually all sectors of the Economy and a growing adoption have helped to make that demand for qualified professionals unsatisfied.

Among the offerings of existing courses, in addition to the online courses, in the modality MOOC, as offered by Courser, there is a history of universities that have recently initiated blockchain courses, including the University of Illinois in the United States and The University of Carabobo in Venezuela.

As for the Criptomonedas courses for business schools, recently, the Spanish business school IE Business School, initiated a pilot program based on Blokchain and the Criptomonedas. The idea was to experience in class the creation of value from scratch in the framework of a tokenizada economy.

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