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Paying the price: Ransomware in education
Ransomware cost our education system $4 billion in 2022 – just for the downtime. Find out what’s making schools a top target, and get best practices for protecting your data.
Higher Education solutions
Transform your campus and stay education ready with help from our technology solutions.
Graduate to better technology for education.
Provide digital equity, rich learning and instructor opportunities, promote safety, and help boost productivity with technology solutions built right for higher education. From flexible online learning options to Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to power augmented reality (AR) experiences to voice and collaboration technologies, our higher education solutions can help provide a better campus experience.
Digital Equity
With Verizon Digital Inclusion, you can help give Pell Grant recipients the tools they need to succeed, whether they’re in the classroom or working remotely.
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Smart campus: technology in the connected classroom and beyond
Transform the campus experience.
Whether meeting friends in the quad, engaged in immersive learning or posting pictures to social media at the football stadium, a connected campus can enhance students’ experiences.
Our solutions can be implemented quickly and easily to give your institution the performance it needs to keep people connected across locations. Backed by America’s most reliable 5G network¹, our secure, scalable services can help you improve hybrid learning, keep staff productive and manage facilities.

Connectivity and 5G
To help keep you connected, we offer a variety of network services, including LTE and 5G Business Internet, that are easy to implement and provide secure, reliable performance.
Virtual Network Services
Transform your network from single-purpose connections to a software-managed, cost-effective ecosystem.
Dive deeper into connected campus possibilities.

Hybrid learning in higher education
Blended or hybrid learning learning—mixing in-person with online instruction and study—has enabled more flexible access to higher education.

How a Smart Connected Campus enhances the student experience
Smart Campus solutions give Universities an edge and provide higher levels of engagement and better outcomes.

Verizon 5G Innovation Session: The Digital Transformation of Education
Watch our Verizon experts have thought-provoking discussions on the transformative benefits of 5G for K-12 and higher education with representatives from Ericsson, Arizona State University and NYC Media Lab.

Bring out the best in your students with more collaborative and engaging class experiences.
Find out more about how BlueJeans by Verizon can help you improve distance learning and remote work to help create better collaborative and engaging learning environments.
Immersive learning: Powered by 5G

Engage students in new, powerful ways.
The modern classroom is no longer constrained by four walls. Educators need to be able to meet their students where they are—and take them to places they’ve never been before. From leveraging virtual reality (VR) to provide immersive context to a lesson, to becoming more accessible to remote and nontraditional learners, to innovating new ways to engage and excite your students, you need a strong foundation that can support it all.
5G networks and 5G-powered applications will play a significant role in reshaping the future of education to meet these new needs and expectations. We can help you integrate the high bandwidth and low latency of 5G into learning so you can support VR, AR and other immersive learning experiences, and unlock new potentials to help students thrive.
5G Ultra Wideband
Our connected campus portfolio leverages the power of 5G Ultra Wideband* to expose students to the power of possibilities
Network as a Service
The Verizon Network as a Service (NaaS) platform helps you support the delivery of dynamic applications and services while enabling advanced 5G technologies.
* 5G Ultra Wideband available in selected areas.
See 5G-powered learning in action.

Using augmented reality to enhance college learning
Augmented reality is changing the education landscape and delivering an immersive learning experience that help students thrive.

Verizon explores the 5G future of learning at Arizona State University 5G Innovation Hub.
Learn how student-led teams are developing solutions to bridge the digital divide using 5G and edge computing.

Immersive virtual reality education
Explore how 5G helps put reality into virtual reality learning experiences.

Don’t blink. 5G is changing education fast.
Learn how 5G networks are poised to enhance learning inside and outside the classroom through virtual reality.
Security: Connected learning requires careful protection.

Help protect students and faculty from cyberattacks.
As you focus on creating a more connected campus and enhancing learning with 5G, protecting data, student information and your organization’s ability to operate requires a greater focus on cybersecurity than ever before. Mitigating your security risks means strengthening, securing and modernizing your network infrastructure.
We offer a range of solutions that can help you safeguard student, faculty and university data by helping to modernize your network infrastructure, providing security assessments and mitigating threats. We understand the threat facing higher education—and we can help you better understand where to focus your security efforts.
Cybersecurity Assessment
Get an objective review of your school’s controls and practices, and implement assessment activities based on expert analysis.
Mobile Device Management
Help mitigate mobile risk across schools by streamlining how you manage mobility and protect data using a single management portal.
Explore more about security in education.

Keep your campuses securely connected
Get ahead of threats and keep your students, faculty, administrators and campuses safe from cyberattacks even with tight budgets and limited staff.

Zero-trust security approach to higher education
Learn about zero trust, a strategic approach that helps higher education and K–12 organizations prevent successful data breaches.

Blended security
Explore the benefits of blended security, which can help keep the academic community safe while on campus—while also protecting the institution online, including its network and vital data.

Higher education under attack
Learn why addressing every corner of security at higher-ed institutions can be a significant challenge, but also a critical one.

Knowledge, experience and results matter.
When you’re under pressure to do more with less, modernization becomes a necessity, not an option. Unleash the power of your technology and staff by identifying and translating objectives into strategy with help from our consultants. We offer a full spectrum of guidance to help you deliver better education experiences.
The experience and breadth to support higher education
Explore more.
Take a deeper dive into the education topics that interest you most with these additional resources.
5G in schools: 5G use cases in education
Read about how introducing 5G in schools can take the way students learn to new, exciting levels and revolutionize the way educators teach.
How technology in the classroom can help advance learning
Take a look at some of the most effective technologies available today and how using technology in the classroom can help advance learning opportunities.
Turning challenges with remote learning in higher education into advantages
Learn why the key to a more certain future might be in taking a deeper look at the problems with remote learning.
Edge computing vs cloud computing in higher education
Understand the opportunities in redesigning campus IT infrastructure and moving applications to the edge.
1Most reliable 5G network based on more first place rankings in RootMetrics® 5G data reliability assessments of 125 metro markets conducted in 2H 2022. Tested with best commercially available smartphones on three national mobile networks across all available network types. Your experiences may vary. RootMetrics rankings are not an endorsement of Verizon.