2021 upon independent accreditation). He also created a board that included Teach for America Founder, Wendy Kopp, and Bytedance Founder and CEO, Zhang Yiming, and recruited his leadership team.
What is Minerva today?
Minerva today has two entities:
Minerva University is a not-for-profit liberal arts university, offering a reinvented university experience for the brightest, most motivated students from over 80 countries. Minerva’s undergraduate offering combines a pathbreaking cross-contextual interdisciplinary curriculum, the highest academic standards, an accomplished faculty versed in the science of learning, a global, urban residential experience that traverses seven countries, and a cutting-edge digital learning environment that produces deep and long-lasting learning. Minerva delivers an exceptional liberal arts education for future leaders and innovators
across a wide variety of disciplines.
Minerva Project is a pathbreaking educational innovator, designing and delivering top-tier educational programs through educational and corporate partners globally. By partnering with high schools, universities and corporations around the world, Minerva Project brings the Minerva philosophy and methodology to other institutions through its undergraduate or executive education programs, as well as its Minerva Baccalaureate aimed at college-bound high school students.
Philosophy
Some believe education, mainly higher education, is for career preparation. Others believe education exists solely to pursue knowledge for its own sake. Yet, at Minerva, the team believes in practical education, and that higher education’s objective is to enable people to make better decisions of consequence,
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