Minerva Project began with a clear and audacious vision: to reform the entire global higher education system from first principles. Our original prototype, Minerva University, was a revolutionary model from inception and has retained its position as the most innovative university in the world for five consecutive years.
Since then, our collaborations with 30 higher education partners across twelve countries have reached more than 50,000 learners, trained over 1,000 faculty, and established programs on five continents. The Minerva Baccalaureate has expanded access to our model for middle and secondary school students.
Today, our reform mission — nurturing critical wisdom for the sake of the world — takes on a new urgency.
The new Minerva University System will more quickly scale our impact at a time when the world needs it most.
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.
