# Which universities teach Ada programming courses?

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**Created:** [April 11, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/which-universities-teach-ada-programming-courses/360 "2023-04-11T21:57:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![ats](https://forum.ada-lang.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@ats](https://forum.ada-lang.io/u/ats)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/which-universities-teach-ada-programming-courses/360/1 "2023-04-11T21:57:28Z")

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Which universities teach Ada at this point? I’ve found the below list of universities that are supposed to teach Ada:

[https://www.adaic.org/learn/academia/universities/](https://www.adaic.org/learn/academia/universities/)

The problem that I see all of the time is that most universities offer a course in Ada once every few years and given how seldom one can take it, few sign up and future courses are canceled due to a lack of interest. Or, there is just a single class which teaches one some basic concepts and nothing more.

Are there universities that embrace Ada/SPARK at least close to the way that they do more popular programming languages?

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**Author:** ![DirkCraeynest](https://forum.ada-lang.io/user_avatar/forum.ada-lang.io/dirkcraeynest/32/94_2.png) [@DirkCraeynest](https://forum.ada-lang.io/u/DirkCraeynest)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/which-universities-teach-ada-programming-courses/360/2 "2023-04-12T11:56:03Z")

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See also [Member Universities | AdaCore](https://www.adacore.com/academia/universities)

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**Author:** ![cantanima](https://forum.ada-lang.io/user_avatar/forum.ada-lang.io/cantanima/32/121_2.png) [@cantanima](https://forum.ada-lang.io/u/cantanima)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/which-universities-teach-ada-programming-courses/360/3 "2023-04-18T16:09:52Z")

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That list isn’t a good measure. They list a university where I used to work (~2 yrs ago), and it wasn’t taught even then. They listed our university merely because I was a member of GAP.

Sure enough, it links to my department’s website (Mathematics) and I was probably the only one there who had ever heard of Ada, let alone used it.