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.
Our focus on global education reform fulfills our ultimate mission—nurturing critical wisdom for the sake of the world.
The Minerva Baccalaureate elevates middle and secondary school curricula, giving learners access to our System from middle school through graduate school and beyond.
The movement continues to grow: We have over 30 partners, reached more than 40,000 learners, trained over 1,000 faculty, and established programs on five continents.
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. Minerva is focused on accelerating the acquisition of critical wisdom by developing universal skills instead of imparting information.
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 heterogeneous ecosystem of individuals and organizations, which shares a belief in the importance of critical wisdom. We 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.
Our approach to education reform is a direct application of the educational sciences that dramatically improves learning outcomes compared to traditional approaches, including better engagement, retention, recall, and the ability to transfer knowledge across contexts and disciplines.
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 sustainable economics, that we can address the full scope of the change society needs.
