Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), US invites applications for its undergraduate programme. Interested students may apply online at www.minerva.kgi.edu. The tuition fee will be $10,000 per year, which is approximately 25 per cent the cost of tuition at other top tier, private American universities.
The Minerva Schools at KGI was established as an alliance between KGI an accredited American university and member of the Claremont University Consortium, and Minerva Project, a San Francisco-based company reinventing the university experience for the 21st century.
Minerva project was founded by CEO Ben Nelson in 2011 and received a $25 million seed investment from Benchmark Capital in 2012. An academic advisory board was formed early on to provide guidance and support as Minerva began to reinvent every aspect of an undergraduate education. The founding advisory board includes former Harvard University President larry Summers, Patrick Harker, Bob Kerrey and lee Shulman.
Vibha Kagzi, India MD, Minerva Schools at KGI, said: “After the Class X, it is typical in India to pick a stream, whether Arts, Commerce or Science, and immediately decide upon a respective career. At Minerva, we want students to have an opportunity to explore a breadth of disciplines before choosing an area of focus. We therefore offer a first year with four cornerstone courses before students must choose their major. We believe that providing an interdisciplinary curriculum as a foundation is central to providing a quality education for future global leaders.”
The schools will look for students with excellent grades from Class IX to Class XII, but they need not be the best in every subject. The last date to apply is December 31, 2013.