Minerva University

Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute

Seal of Minerva Schools at KGI
Latin: Universitas Minervae
Other name	Minerva Schools at KGI
Motto	Sapientia Critica
Motto in English	Critical Wisdom
Type	Private
Established	2012
Dean	Stephen Kosslyn
Undergraduates	around 310
Location	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Website	http://minerva.kgi.edu/

The Minerva Schools at KGI is a non-profit university founded as a partnership between the Minerva Project and Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), a member of the Claremont University Consortium.. It offers both a four-year undergraduate program as well as a part-time master's program. Minerva’s founder, former Snapfish president Ben Nelson, has referred to it as "the first elite American university to be launched in a century."Larry Summers, former Harvard University President and United States Secretary of the Treasury, chaired its first advisory board, joined by Bob Kerrey, former Democratic senator from Nebraska and president of the New School.

In April 2012, Minerva Project received US$25,000,000 in venture funding from Benchmark Capital to create the undergraduate program that would become the Minerva Schools at KGI.Stephen Kosslyn joined Minerva in March 2013 to serve as Founding Dean. Prior to joining Minerva, Kosslyn served as Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and Dean of Social Sciences at Harvard University. Kosslyn was responsible for hiring the heads of the four colleges in the School of Arts & Science and overseeing the development of Minerva's seminar-based curriculum. In July 2013, Minerva Project partnered with the Keck Graduate Institute to officially launch the Minerva Schools at KGI.

Minerva received WASC regional accreditation for five of its programs: the Bachelor of Science in Social Sciences, the Bachelor of Arts in Arts and Humanities, the Bachelor of Science in Natural Sciences, the Bachelor of Science in Computational Sciences, and the Bachelor of Science in Business.