What are my chances of getting into Minerva?

The admission rates of Minerva for the first years were 2.8\% (68 accepted out of almost 2,500 applications) and 2.0\% (220 admitted out of 11,000 apps). And this happens without any quotas or limitations, but one absolute bar. Everyone and anyone that passes the bar gets admitted.

Is Minerva for profit?

Minerva University (formerly Minerva Schools at KGI) is a non-profit private university headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Is Minerva hard?

This college startup has a 1.9\% acceptance rate, making it tougher to get into than Harvard. Ike Edeani / The Atlantic College startup Minerva Schools, whose students explore up to seven cities during four years of study, has received 16,000 applications for 306 available places this year, the Financial Times reported.

Where are the students of Minerva University located?

There is no campus; students are housed in a residence hall in San Francisco in their first year. Subsequent year groups spend semesters variously in Seoul, Hyderabad, Berlin, Buenos Aires, London and Taipei. The class of 2020 in Taipei. Photograph: Minerva The first undergraduate class enrolled in 2014.

What can you do with a degree from Minerva?

Just under a fifth (16\%) have landed roles in the technology sector, and graduates have gone on to work at such companies as Google, Twitter, Uber and Razor Labs. Twenty-year-old Jade Bowler has just completed her first year at Minerva, and admits she was sceptical when she first learned about the institution from an online advert.

What’s it like to be a student at minceminerva?

Minerva isn’t perfect, of course. It’s a new institution, and being a student at a school that’s still forming can be frustrating. It requires effort and commitment to be a student here: there are challenges on top of the “typical” problems that college freshmen face.

Will Minerva challenge the sclerotic university model?

Either way, Minerva’s innovations certainly pose a challenge to a sclerotic university model in both the US and the UK.