Professional Subscriptions for Academic Institutions
Foster a global mindset at your university with FT Professional
FT Professional equips students with a global mindset and offers faculty the tools needed to enliven theory with real-world applications
Achieve more with FT Professional by your side
FT Professional delivers award-winning Financial Times journalism to faculty and students. Our unique commentary and analysis will bring your university’s existing curricula to life with tools that can deliver a blended learning experience. The FT’s education subscription comes with:
- A suite of learning tools allows faculty to bring content seamlessly into the classroom, and integrate news into your learning management system.
- Customizable experiences allow students and faculty to follow topics and create virtual reading lists aligned with courses.
- Extensive country-specific news briefings offer invaluable preparation for students' international trips and experiences.
FT Professional's suite of learning tools
Through articles, blogs, videos and podcasts, FT Professional provides universities around the world with authoritative news and analysis, as well as powerful learning tools.
We provide a suite of tools to help faculty incorporate content into their course plans. Plus, FT coverage can be seamlessly integrated into your university’s learning and content management systems (i.e. Blackboard, Canvas or Moodle).
Customised News Feeds
Follow themes, countries, people or companies. Stories appear in your personalised myFT news hub or as email digests.
International Trip Preparation
Country-specific briefings can be sent to designated groups of students in preparation for their study abroad programs.
Virtual Reading Lists
Topic-based article feeds or curated reading lists can be integrated into LMS systems such as Blackboard, Canvas & Moodle.
FirstFT + Weekly Quiz
Our editors' pick of global news, commentary, and analysis. Every Friday we release a news quiz to test students’ knowledge.
Portfolio
Manage your own stock portfolio, learn new vocabulary with a built-in glossary, track markets and their movement, and more.
LMS Integration
Topic-based article feeds can be integrated into learning management systems such as Blackboard, Canvas & Moodle.
Additional features for education users
- Editorial Newsletters: Pick from a wide range of newsletters which provide specialist analysis and selections of further reading.
- Business School Insider Newsletter: Our global education editor reports on campus news, management research and business education trends.
- Special Reports: Save time on research and get valuable insights from online library of reports on countries, industries and business topics.
- The FT App: Read FT news and analysis wherever you are, with unlimited mobile access.
- Highlighting tool: This highlighting function allows readers to select key points from FT articles and save them so they’re easy to find and return to.
- Multi-platform Access: Read FT news and analysis via desktop, tablet, mobile, and our third-party channels.
1,000+ leading education institutions
trust FT Professional
Our goal as educators is to make that link between scholarship and the real world for our students, and the Financial Times is our vehicle for doing that.
Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, George Washington University
Spotlight on our customers
An FT Professional Subscription provides a practical way for educational institutions to incorporate current affairs and an international perspective into their curriculums. Learn below how universities and business schools around the world are using the FT as a powerful tool for learning.
Our education pricing model is tailored to meet the needs of universities and business schools, and has been refined in recent years in response to feedback from our customers. We offer all academic institutions a 67.5% discount per reader and there are four scenarios which determine the price.
Business school only
For business schools who want to provide access to postgraduate business school students.
Price based on:
15% of students studying a business related postgraduate course.
Key benefit:
Fixed pricing relative to the size of the business school.
University only
For universities who want to provide access to all undergraduates and faculty excluding their business school.
Price based on:
Total number of students and faculty.
Key benefit:
Fixed pricing relative to the size of the university.
Business school + University
For universities who want to provide access to all undergraduates and faculty including their business school.
Price based on:
25% of students and faculty + 15% of postgraduate business school students.
Key benefit:
Pricing weighted towards students studying postgraduate business related courses.
Small group
For universities or business schools who only want to provide access to a defined number of students and/or faculty.
Price based on:
Number of individuals.
Key benefit:
Fixed pricing based on a defined number of individuals.
Higher education
Paid-for premium access to the FT for
universities and business schools.
Includes the following features:
- Up to 67.5% discount on standard rates
- Unlimited premium access
- App and epaper access
- Customised news feeds
- Virtual reading lists
- FirstFT and weekly quizzes
- Portfolio management tools
Price based on size of student
population and type of institution
Get in touch
Get in touch today to gain access to essential features and insight included in an FT Professional Subscription for your school.
