University Business School ESMT Berlin Now Accepting Bitcoin

ESMT University in Berlin has become the first German university to accept bitcoin as payment for tuition and more. ESMT Berlin: First German University to Accept Bitcoin. The European School of Management and Technology in Berlin has become the first German university to accept virtual currency Bitcoin as a means of payment for tuition, particularly its degree and executive education programs. “Bitcoins can now be used for all payments to the ESMT,” the press release states. “The digital cash makes it possible, as it were, to send SMS without the involvement of a bank worldwide within a....

In a German first, ESMT Berlin, a state-accredited private business university will accept bitcoin as a currency “for all payments” including tuition. Announced today, the business school revealed that it is now the first German institute of higher education to accept bitcoin as payment for tuition and all other payments toward the university. Hailing bitcoin as a digital currency that facilitates worldwide money transfers within minutes and without the need for a bank, the Berlin-based international business school underlined bitcoin as “the most well-developed blockchain application.”....

How would you like to go to school and pay in Bitcoin while doing so? A Cyprus University is doing just that. The University of Nicosia is now allowing students to pay their tuition bills and other fees using Bitcoin. It's the first University in the world to do so, and hopefully it sets a trend for colleges elsewhere around the world. "We are acutely aware that digital currency is an inevitable technical development that will lead to significant innovation," says Dr. Christos Vlachos, who is a part of the Council of UNic and works as the school's chief financial officer. How soon until we....

Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia is accepting bitcoin. Well, sort of. Business Insider Australia reports that the school is the first educational institution in the land down under to accept bitcoin payments. But it's not exactly what you might think. The report indicates that bitcoin is only being accepted for something called 'Venture Dorm', a twelve-week program that focuses on entrepreneurial education. It's run by the New Venture Institute and Entrepreneurs in Conversation event series, Business Insider says. Vice Chancellor at the University, Michael Barber, said that....

Bentley University, the private university located in Waltham, Massachusetts, has revealed it now accepts digital currencies for tuition payments. Bentley University’s president explained that the school has been “at the forefront in preparing business leaders” and further remarked that the faculty is “proud to embrace” the same technology its students are learning about today. Bentley University Partners With Coinbase to Accept 3 Digital Currencies According to an announcement stemming from Bentley’s newsroom, the school of accounting....