What is "Minerva Project" that provides the best educational environment to the best talent?

"Minerva Project" is a project aimed at reinventing higher education by universities that reverse the concepts so far. Students go through overseas student dormitories every year to attend classes online, going through a much more severe gate than the prestigious Harvard university or Yale University with a passing rate of only 2.8%. In order to educate talented people who can lead the world, the details of "Minerva School" where students are totally different from traditional education while feeling changes in the world situation, and the history of establishment are spelled out .

Is the Minerva Project the future of higher education?
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/9993/what-is-minerva-project/


It was the CEO of "Minerva Project" that invented the idea of ​​Minerva SchoolBen · NelsonMr. Mr. Nelson's parents are both scientists, and one of the sisters was born in the Salabrelet family who has a doctorate in finance. He studied business at the University of Pennsylvania and about the history and philosophy of higher education.
When Mr. Nelson was in school, he noticed that the university was established for a specific purpose. Mr. Nelson said, "The university is being created as a place to finish educating leaders who lead the world," and has come to the idea that it is not simply a place to receive lectures on chemical phenomena and the like.

However, because there were no universities that realized such a philosophy, Mr. Nelson joined the student community association and aimed to improve the educational environment. Activities were made to acknowledge the subjects not included in the graduation unit, such as "food psychology" and "influence of racial discrimination in urban planning" which were interested in many tutoring subjects in the subjects of individual tutelage, He said that he was not able to make much achievements.

Mr. Nelson graduated from university entered the real industry, and a photo sharing service "SnapfishHewlett-Packard demonstrated skills such as selling for $ 300 million (about 37.3 billion yen). However, as Nelson traveled to Chile for 1,500 kilometers in 7 days and traveled around 30 wineries, the opportunity to go back to the educational field again will come. Mr. Nelson, who can not speak Spanish about Chile's journey, said, "There is no tourism infrastructure, the trip was very dangerous and catastrophic." However, by hiring an Argentine sommelier, we were able to receive detailed explanation by Argentineans and we were able to learn behind the scenes of Chile's outstanding wine production facilities from Argentine's perspective. The experience of deeply learning about foreign situations has led Mr. Nelson to re-ignite Mr. Nelson's interest in the field of education.

After returning home, Mr. Nelson began aiming to realize an effective educational concept lacking in traditional prestigious universities. Mr. Nelson said, "I thought that it would be easier for myself to set up a university rather than persuading a traditional university, so if it is an effective concept to show it outside, other universities" There will be no way to "There will be the idea of" There will be a new university established. " "Minerva School" which realized Mr. Nelson's experience and the idea from the time of the student period was born.


The following image is a picture of the actual class of Minerva School.


Multiple students receive one professor's online lecture through PC, and the professor can display questions on the screen for students. By the way, Minerua School sometimes sometimes does not face directly with the professor until graduation.


Although "Minerva School" intentionally does not raise the entrance's threshold, Mr. Nelson's goal is to have the best students among the highest among Ivey · League successful grades To educate. For the human resources who will be global leaders in the future and those who have the potential to create and operate major global organizations, instead of the general university life experience, the best educational environment and traveling around the world Mr. Nelson wants to give him the experience to do. Students enrolled in the first year in the USA · San Francisco in the second year, Berlin in Germany or Berlin in Argentina · Buenos Aires in Argentina, in the third year in Korea · Seoul or India · Bangalore, in the fourth year students in Turkey · Istanbul or the UK · London I will send my student life in the dorm.


The following is a 4 year curriculum, the first year learned the ability to become the foundation of students. You can decide your major in the second year and do learning and research related to "Critical thinking". In the third year, we will start a core project while studying abroad and nurture "creativity". In the fourth year that will be the final year, I will focus on the ability of "effective communication" and "effective mutual exchanges" by completing the project I have been advancing with the department major I have studied so far.


Minerva School is classified as a "commercial university" which has not so well-known reputation in educational institutions, but tuition fee is only about 10,000 dollars (about 1,240,000 yen) per year. There are about 20 students enrolled in the year, so in order to take online courses on campus, state-of-the-art learning environments are in place. With the most selective undergraduate program in the USA, students are able to receive different education from general universities.

A student's movie that goes to Minerva School has been released on YouTube, and you can see self introduction to classmates and the state of class scenery.

Gabriella: Dream School - YouTube