qBraid Establishes QUEST Program to Deliver Unified Cloud-Based QPU Access to 40 Universities - Quantum Computing Report

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qBraid Establishes QUEST Program to Deliver Unified Cloud-Based QPU Access to 40 Universities

Quantum software and cloud infrastructure provider qBraid has launched the Quantum University Education and Support Track (QUEST), a workforce-development initiative designed to integrate physical quantum computing hardware directly into university classrooms. Spanning the 2026–2027 academic year, the program pools quantum processing unit (QPU) resources from multiple hardware vendors to provide more than 1,200 undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on development experience. By routing fragmented hardware architectures through a unified browser-based notebook interface, the centralized platform removes the financial and logistical barriers that traditionally limit university coursework to localized classical simulation.