Bentley University
Education
Massachusetts business university whose student accounts office takes tuition in USDC through Coinbase — the one stablecoin route into a US degree we found.
USDC
Verified
Verified
RareSkills
Advanced Solidity, ZK and Rust bootcamps for working engineers, priced from about $2,000, with 2% off for paying in USDC or USDT.
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At a glance
- Accepts stablecoins?
- Yes (verified)
- Networks
- Not published — confirm the chain at checkout
- How you pay
- Invoice, paid from your wallet
- Payment provider
- Not published
- Verified
- · 1 source · see evidence
- Limitations
- No network is named for USDC or USDT, and no processor. Admission is by application, so expect payment details to arrive after acceptance rather than at a cart. · 2 more
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Payment readiness
Every line from the record; gaps are stated, not filled.- Confirmed coin and network pairings
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- USDC — network pairing not documented
- USDT — network pairing not documented
- Evidence
- Documentation checked · 2026-09-13
- Payment route
- Payment route not published The merchant does not document how stablecoin payment is taken.
- Countries
- Available internationally — no exclusions documented
- Product restrictions
- 3 documented
- Refunds
- Documented. "If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with our course, you can take advantage of our hassle-free 14-day refund policy with no questions asked." Card transaction fees are deducted from card refunds; nothing is stated about the mechanics of refunding a stablecoin payment.
- Identity checks
- Not published
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Stablecoins accepted
- USDC accepted
- USDT accepted
- PYUSD no evidence of acceptance
- USDS no evidence of acceptance
- DAI no evidence of acceptance
- RLUSD no evidence of acceptance
- EURC no evidence of acceptance
- AEC no evidence of acceptance
A dash means we found no evidence of support, not that support is impossible. Coin availability at checkout can differ by country and product.
Payment method
- Payment provider
- Not confirmed
- Direct wallet transfer
- No
- Identity verification
- Not confirmed
Availability
- Online
- Yes
- Physical locations
- No
- Regions served
- International
Payment notes
RareSkills' pricing page says: "Save 2% if you pay with USDC or USDT." It is the only crypto statement on the site and it is a precise one — two stablecoins, a stated incentive, nothing about Bitcoin or Ether. The page lists each bootcamp with upfront and monthly fee tiers (for example $1,950 × 3 for the Advanced Solidity bootcamp, $2,600 for the Zero Knowledge bootcamp), next cohort dates and the instructor. Enrolment is by application ("Apply Now"), which is consistent with payment being invoiced after acceptance rather than taken at a checkout; the page does not say how a stablecoin payment is collected or on which network. The refund line is worth reading before choosing a method: "If you made the payment via Credit card, the transaction fee will be deducted when processing refund" — a stablecoin payment carries no such deduction on the merchant's side, though it does carry the 2% discount you would presumably forfeit.
Refunds
Documented. "If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with our course, you can take advantage of our hassle-free 14-day refund policy with no questions asked." Card transaction fees are deducted from card refunds; nothing is stated about the mechanics of refunding a stablecoin payment.
Stablecoin refunds are outbound payments a merchant chooses to send, not automatic reversals. There is no chargeback.
A smart-contract security bootcamp that gives you two percent off for paying in a stablecoin is about the least surprising merchant in this directory, and it is still one of only two education providers we can document.
The statement
“Save 2% if you pay with USDC or USDT.” One sentence on the pricing page, no elaboration, no mention of any other coin. The discount is the interesting part: it says the merchant would rather have a stablecoin than a card, which for a course priced around two thousand dollars means the card fees it is avoiding are worth more than the incentive it is offering.
What is not said
How you pay, and on which network. RareSkills admits by application, so the reasonable expectation is an invoice after acceptance with the details on it. Ask for the network before sending; with USDT especially, the same ticker lives on several chains.
Refunds
Fourteen days, no questions — unusually generous for a cohort course. Card refunds lose the transaction fee; the policy is silent on how a stablecoin refund is made, so ask that too.
Related
Bentley University takes USDC for tuition through Coinbase; Helius, OpenRouter and Venice are the developer-facing merchants the same students probably pay already. The education category explains why this list is short.
Verification
Verified Verified September 2026
An editor confirmed these payment options against the sources listed below.
The merchant's own pricing page names USDC and USDT and attaches a 2% discount to paying in them, and states the refund policy. That is merchant documentation naming the coins, sufficient for a verified status without a live enrolment, which we did not make. No network and no processor are named, so both fields are empty. The company name is from the site footer (RareSkills LLC); a location is not stated on the pages we read and the US is recorded only because the entity is an LLC quoting in dollars — treat that as weak. Cohort prices and dates are from the pricing page as read on 13 September 2026 and will change.
Methods used
- merchant documentation
Sources
- RareSkills — Web3 Blockchain Bootcamp Prices "Save 2% if you pay with USDC or USDT"; bootcamp fee tiers and cohort dates; the 14-day refund policy and card-fee deduction.
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Recent changes
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Added to directory
Added after reading the pricing page's statement of a 2% discount for paying in USDC or USDT. Network and processor unpublished.
Limitations
- No network is named for USDC or USDT, and no processor. Admission is by application, so expect payment details to arrive after acceptance rather than at a cart.
- The 2% discount is for stablecoin payment specifically; the pricing page does not mention other cryptocurrencies.
- Cohorts have fixed start dates and upfront or monthly fee tiers; the discount applies to the fee paid, not to a subscription.
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