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.
  • Ask FT which is our AI-powered feature that answers questions by searching and summarising trusted Financial Times journalism.

FT's Business School Teaching Case Studies

Take a look at our monthly case studies devoted to responsible business dilemmas.

Special Report: Business Education: Executive Education 2025

The FT’s latest rankings of custom and open-enrolment programmes. Plus: the race to keep up with AI developments; the return of face-to-face learning; the retreat of DEI.

Financial Times Insights

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).

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Customised News Feeds

Follow themes, countries, people or companies. Stories appear in your personalised myFT news hub or as email digests.

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International Trip Preparation

Country-specific briefings can be sent to designated groups of students in preparation for their study abroad programs.

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Virtual Reading Lists

Topic-based article feeds or curated reading lists can be integrated into LMS systems such as Blackboard, Canvas & Moodle.

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FirstFT + Weekly Quiz

Our editors' pick of global news, commentary, and analysis. Every Friday we release a news quiz to test students’ knowledge.

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Manage your own stock portfolio, learn new vocabulary with a built-in glossary, track markets and their movement, and more.

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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.

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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.

Liesl Riddle, 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.

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