Wharton Business School gears up to accept BTC and ETH for tuition fees

Wharton Business School gears up to accept BTC and ETH for tuition fees
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2021-10-29 15:29

The Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania has rolled out an executive education program in blockchain technology. As part of this program, the college will let its students pay tuition fees in Bitcoin (BTC/USD) and Ethereum (ETH/USD), or USD Coin (USDC/USD). With this move, Wharton has become the first Ivy League institution to accept crypto as a means of payment from program participants.

Reportedly, the option to pay in crypto is available, starting today. As aforementioned, this option is only available to students that enroll for the six-week executive course dubbed Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets. The college offers the course online, and it targets finance professionals across the globe.

According to Reed Cataldo, one of the course administrators, the course costs less than one ETH, approximately $4,162.63 (£3,026.75) at the time of writing.

The college teamed up with Coinbase to process the crypto payments it receives through Coinbase Commerce. Coinbase charges a 5% fee for merchants that use the Coinbase Commerce service.

However, Wharton will settle this commission instead of passing it on to students. A Coinbase spokesperson disclosed that students can make crypto payments through any on-chain wallet.

More crypto adoption is in order

While the crypto payment option is currently limited to students that take the Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets course, Cataldo is bullish that Wharton will soon expand the offering to other sectors in the future. He further noted that other schools would follow in Wharton’s footsteps and embrace crypto.

This news comes after the University of Pennsylvania announced that it received its biggest ever gift in the form of a crypto donation earlier this year. At the time, the university disclosed that an anonymous donor gifted the Wharton Business School $5 million (£3.64 million) worth of BTC.

The Ivy League university noted that it would use the funds to support the growth of programs within the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance at the Wharton School.

While the Wharton Business School is the first Ivy League college to accept tuition fees in crypto, it is not the first American college to embrace crypto as a payment means. The King’s College in New York started accepting BTC payments in 2014 after joining hands with Coin.co.

Apart from US colleges, schools like the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland, the American University of Paraguay, and Vietnam’s FPT University also accept crypto payments.

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