American University, Bentley now accepts crypto's for tuition payments.

[Rikafip]

I am perhaps more interested in finding out why they chose to take USD*C* (Ethereum network) instead of USD*T* (Tron network), especially how lots of people came to pay me in USDT recently - it has more activity in general (even Chinese traders prefer it I heard).

Since it's mentioned in that article that Bentley University partnered with Coinbase in order to accept crypto, no wonder that they "suggested" them to accept only USDC when it comes to stablecoins despite high fees and not USDT or some others that are much cheaper to send.

In order to do this, the university is partnering with Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US, to accept three cryptos as payment...

Unless the company or School wants to invest into bitcoin for long term profits using tuition fees as a means of gathering bitcoin then it's a nice move. Adopting it as a means of running the school's day to day activities like paying bills can be devastating when the market plunges down.

Since they partnered with Coinbase to sort the crypto payments I doubt that they will accept crypto payments directly so while student will be able to pay in crypto what university will get is fiat so that crypto volatility won't be any problem for them whatsoever.

[fiulpro]

This would be extremely helpful for the people who are international students as well, since at the end of the day they are going to be able to pay a lot of money without paying the government fee. I was in an international institute and there we didn't have to just worry about the fee but we had to also worry who how late it was gonna go and sometimes the return would take ages as well. Therefore I do think that one have to understand how helpful it will be for the international students.

But due to volatility they might have a slight problem as well, since the price is going as down as 8% they might try and encash a big amount after recieving the payment therby making the whole thing a bit complicated.

[alik111]

That's a great news to hear. Can you please tell me that is there any chances to add more payment methods using other Cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin or BNB ? I think this types of adoption will help Bitcoin more to be the popular currency in near future.

[luna6868]

I am perhaps more interested in finding out why they chose to take USD*C* (Ethereum network) instead of USD*T* (Tron network), especially how lots of people came to pay me in USDT recently - it has more activity in general (even Chinese traders prefer it I heard).

Yeah, I'm also confused why I chose USD*C* I also use USD*T* as payment for my purchases in LA

[franky1]

and it seems that people want to get excited about this small unknown college more so than something like Gucci retail stores adopting crypto.

[Oluwa-btc]

and it seems that people want to get excited about this small unknown college more so than something like Gucci retail stores adopting crypto.

Lol, It might be small but this is a college, if I was in that college I'll be the happiest person, coz I can live the Bitcoin live I aspire for as almost everything can be accepted in Bitcoin Ethereum and United States Dollar.
Could it be that most or majority of people using bitcoin and Crypto are adults ? Maybe  more of them.

Flashy clothes are not my thing , but this ain't no bad move one can get he's desired wears with Bitcoin.
They are indeed big moves, gradually as we await full adoption of Bitcoin. I'm Nigerian as I can wait for this to be implemented in my ends, University so I can go borrow books and start paying borrowing/ subscription fee's with Bitcoin in the library.

[verita1]

It's happening!
Life in crypto is coming from all sides. As always, every time institutions accept crypto as a means of payment, it is welcome news for the crypto community.
Because innovation comes hand in hand, today it is Bentley University, tomorrow the same University could be adding blockchain to its entire system to achieve improvements in its administration.
It is the beginning of a change that will make our crypto community stronger and will give more people the opportunity to join and Universities are the best place to create the movement.

To get an idea of ​​how many Universities around the world are graduating their students in blockchain.
It is the best mission to teach about cryptocurrencies and other elements to provide solutions in the current time.
An article by CoinDesk tells us:

The Top Universities for Blockchain by CoinDesk 2021
This year's ranking of 230 schools worldwide sees Asian names dominate and European universities rise up the board. Berkeley and MIT are the highest-rated U.S. schools.

https://www.coindesk.com/learn/top-blockchain-university-cornell-university/

[justdimin]

Bentley University, a private university focused on business and located in Waltham, Massachusetts, US, is now accepting cryptos for tuition payments.The university said it is committed “to leading the way in the early adoption of technologies changing the business world”.

In order to do this, the university is partnering with Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US, to accept three cryptos as payment: bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) and USD Coin (USDC).According to the Pew Research Center, a non-partisan American think tank based in Washington DC, more than 41 million Americans have either invested in, traded or used cryptos. That number equates to 16% of the US adult population.  In 2021 Alex Kim, a Bentley student, set up the Bentley Blockchain Association.

These type of adoptions are the reason why bitcoin could go up a lot more. I mean I get that it may not look great right now, I know that we are dropping right now. But think about it for a second, even a huge American college is accepting bitcoin, which means that we are getting more and more legit every single day when these places keep on accepting bitcoin.

This is why I believe that we should be a bit more happy about this, yes I get that the prices dropping causes people to make it a bit more tough to be happy right now, but the drop is temporary, the adoption is permanent in most cases and we should be glad about it for sure, allows us to realize even younger kids will adopt bitcoin to be able to pay their tuition.

[GiftedMAN]

Accepting payments in terms of bitcoin is amazing however, those universities who are welcoming the grounds for bitcoin acceptance should also upgrade their Tuitions with Blockchain Tech courses and whatever programming stuff etc. Now that would be next level acceptance of crypto as whole. That would be awareness of blockchain. If they start to learn it from universities then different sort of seeds get sown in their minds. This ultimately develops career directions and permanent user of crypto world. Anyways this is cool to know. Slowly this will impact all the educational systems too.

I believe the time is not so far again with this current development accepting it in their institution, soon they will begin the upgrade of their institution and Blockchain technology will be available there. Soon more institutions will demand for bitcoin to be used as a means of payment too I believe the time is now the messages are clear.

[qwertyup23]

It is good news that they are offering the possibility, although I doubt that tuition fees will be paid in this way on a massive scale, in fact I think the opposite is true, payments in this way will be very few, if any. Most people buy cryptocurrencies as an investment, not to spend them as a substitute for the USD or their country's currency, even if that was the original idea of the bitcoin whitepaper.

I wonder how much would be the tuition fee since it will be entirely dependent on the value of cryptocurrencies.

Nevertheless, anything that supports cryptocurrencies as payment for a service/product is definitely beneficial in the long-run. Imagine, cryptocurrencies started as an investment mechanism; now it slowly evolves into an alternative currency for payments for products and services. Now, we see some countries start to accept it as legal tender. Eventually, we will see its slow but effective integration into our monetary and financial systems where the government would most likely accept it as a form of currency.

[hugeblack]

If the university has set up a processing unit for Bitcoin, just as it happened with Tesla, then I can understand that they are really focused on business and not profits, but they use a central party to process data, this party receives Bitcoin and converts it to US dollars in the accounts of the university and therefore they are trying to provide more payment methods for students.

In general, we hope that some universities will start allocating 1% of their surplus funds as Bitcoin instead of cash.

[Nerdy doctor]

This is great. I think this would pave the way for other academic institutions to follow. And it's a nice move on the part of the college to accept cryptocurrencies in tuition payments. Hopefully other institutions would follow and slowly the adoption of bitcoin would grow. Good move Bentley university.

[Leviathan.007]

That's a piece of good news to see some organizations and especially educational organizations like universities are accepting bitcoin and cryptocurrency as a payment method, there are still a few things to talk about regarding Bentley accepting bitcoin, even if they accept bitcoin they still ask for many personal information and force the clients to pass the KYC so they do not completely accept the base of the anonymous transactions, but as a part of bitcoin adoption, this a be a great a step forward for them which is probably due to the demand from the users.