What does Minerva project do?

Minerva Project is an educational organization that designs and delivers educational programs through educational and corporate partners globally. Its mission is reforming education through an interdisciplinary curriculum and fully active learning pedagogy delivered on a proprietary learning environment called ForumTM.

Where do you study Minerva?

Students spend their first full year in San Francisco, California in the United States, and subsequent years in up to six other cities: Seoul, Hyderabad, Berlin, Buenos Aires, London, and Taipei.

Is Minerva Schools a real college?

The rise of Minerva, the world’s most selective university. It partnered with the Keck Graduate Institute to create Minerva Schools at KGI, a non-profit university programme headquartered in San Francisco.

Is the Minerva education model still relevant?

Update on 6/26/2018: in the years since this post has been written, Minerva has significantly changed their educational and business model, and I have received a lot of questions from prospective or current Minerva students who have asked me about whether this post is still totally accurate. The answer is that it is probably not.

Are there any non Ivy League schools in the US?

Still, plenty of non-Ivy League schools in the US offer the same high-caliber education and resources. The United States is home to more colleges and universities than almost any other country in the world, with nearly 4,000 degree-granting institutions recognized by the US Department of Education.

Are there more smart students in the world than Ivy League schools?

His proposition is simple and compelling: there are more smart students in the world than there are seats in Ivy League schools, and the elastic enrollment afforded by Minerva’s online format will provide an elite electronic education for those huddled masses yearning to learn.

How much will Minerva’s tuiton cost?

Nelson makes a big deal of the fact that Minerva’s thus-unspecified tuiton will be “half that of the Ivy League or less.” The Atlantic ballparks this at $20,000 annually or less, which is indeed less expensive than MIT without financial aid, which will run a wealthy family north of $50,000 a year.