Free Tuition at United States of America
| The San Francisco based Minerva School of KGI founded by Ben Nelson has taken up an ambitious project to remake the higher education model more attractive by announcing its plan of four years of free tuition for its first matriculating class. The project hopes to attract some of the world's most talented and academically competitive students for the class that will enrol starting 2014. Minerva school of KGI is yet to get academic accreditation in association with Keck Graduate Institute, a member of the Claremont University Consortium. Former president of Harvard University, Mr. Larry Summers is an adviser to Minerva School of KGI and Mr. Bob Kerry, US Senator, is its executive chairman. The school is working out many other details to attract deserving students. It is proposed that students in subsequent years will pay tuition fee of $10000 a year along with about $19000 annually for boarding and lodging. This is much below the cost of many other top prevailing US universities that range upwards of $50000 and $60000 a year. Ben Nelson, the founder Minerva Project said, "Not only we are looking at students who are intellectually brilliant, we are looking for students who have a deep intellectual thought, deep integrative thought, worldliness, excitement about seeing the world, and maturity." "We are asking a lot of them," he said about the first class of students. "We are asking them not only to be the first students at Minerva, but to help us shape it." That will include providing constant feedback, he said in an interview. Courses at Minerva, named for the Roman Goddess of wisdom, will be seminar-oriented, focusing on higher level skills like logic, reasoning, rhetoric and empirical analysis, Nelson said. Introductory classes such as Economics 101 will be provided free through online lectures. The school's faculty, projected to be experts in their fields from around the world, will hold classes with the Minerva Students online. Students will spend their first year in San Francisco and then the Minerva has plans rotate to other yet to be identified cities in subsequent years. To recruit students, Minerva is working with guidance counsellors and high school principals around the world and several thousand queries have come in via its Website from many countries. For applying refer Website: http://www. minerva.kgi.edu/ News Courtesy- Business Line 18.09.2013  |
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