Abstract.The main objective of this research is to highlight the existing issues related to the edu- cational institutes and to find suitable blockchain features that could resolve them.This study, then explores blockchain features including decentralization, traceability and consensus mechanism that can be used to address the issues related to the educational institution.We have adopted a systematic literature review approach for the identi- fication and the extraction of relevant information from the shortlisted studies.Finally, due to unique and underlying technology, it has still some technical challenges and boundaries along with immutability feature, disclosure of personal privacy and scalability issue also discussed in this study.