Minerva Project began with a clear and audacious vision: build the best university in the world, using first principles to reinvent the entire higher education model. Today, its flagship, Minerva University, is recognized as the most selective and the most innovative university in the world.
That same spirit animates Minerva Project as we collaborate to realize the second part of our vision: helping other institutions reinvent themselves.
Minerva Project has propelled the creation of dozens of new programs, colleges, and entirely new universities. Our collaborations have impacted tens of thousands of learners, and the efforts of our partners are reshaping entire global education systems.
Our focus on global education reform fulfills our ultimate mission—nurturing critical wisdom for the sake of the world.
Ours is a humanist calling. We recognize that elevating learning quality in turn elevates society. We are here to prepare the next generations of leaders, innovators, and global citizens with critical wisdom — the ability to readily apply knowledge to unfamiliar challenges, to make informed decisions, and to continuously consider the interconnected nature of life on earth — in order to enact positive, consequential change.
We recognize that our mission is ambitious and cannot be accomplished by one organization alone, regardless of its scale or success. Our vision is inclusive: to galvanize a movement of like-minded visionaries, who are committed to meaningful education reform and ready to undertake the difficult work needed to achieve it.
By expanding through partnerships, we can foster a heterogenous ecosystem of individuals and organizations, which shares a belief in the importance of critical wisdom. We can act expansively and urgently, driving change in multiple arenas at once. We can harness the power of multiple minds to tackle the massive and increasingly complex challenges we face.
Minerva is focused on accelerating the acquisition of critical wisdom by developing universal skills instead of imparting information. Our approach, a direct application of the educational sciences, dramatically improves learning outcomes compared to traditional systems, including better understanding, retention, recall, and the ability to transfer knowledge across domains and contexts.
We believe that ad-hoc or small-scale interventions, which target specific aspects of the system are doomed to incrementalism or outright failure. It is only through comprehensive reform that addresses curriculum, instruction, and assessment — as well as surrounding concerns such as equitable admissions and sustainable economics — that we can address the full scope of the change society needs.