Minerva University’s accreditation is the culmination of an eight-year process where WSCUC carefully examined every aspect of its programs and operation.

Ben Nelson and Minerva University are changing education and the workplace one student at a time. Its main focus is not information gathering but rather building cognitive skills to solve complex problems and foster constructive decision-making.

Minerva Institute, a nonprofit that operates a startup college incubated by Keck Graduate Institute at Claremont, recently gained accreditation and became Minerva University.

The unabashed “Ivy League alternative,” birthed from an investor-backed start-up, gains a very traditional stamp of approval.

Students at Minerva spend four years entirely online. Is this the future of higher education?