The Minerva Baccalaureate provides a transformative four-year curriculum for students seeking to accelerate their high school education and benefit from a collaborative online learning environment. “The Minerva Baccalaureate program enables students, starting from the 9th grade, to become equipped with the knowledge and skills that set them up for success — not just for college, but far beyond”, said Ben Nelson, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Minerva. "We have chosen Elite Education Group as a partner given their 30+ year experience in advancing quality education and college preparedness for academically driven high school students. We look forward to forging new ground together.”

Building upon the best in contemporary high school curricula, the Minerva Baccalaureate is a transformative four-year program that teaches students essential skills across their core subjects. The program blends structured, personalized learning and engaging teacher-led classes with peers, offering the advantages of both individualized and fully active learning methodologies. Students interconnect their learning and develop skills in complex critical thinking, advanced problem solving, and strategic decision-making — uniquely preparing graduates not only for college acceptance potential par excellence but success at top institutions. Graduates receive a high school diploma from Elite Open School, a Minerva Baccalaureate diploma, and 32 units of college credit.

"For the last 33 years, offering innovative ways to help students unlock their academic potential has been at the core of Elite’s mission", said Jonghwan Patrick Park, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Elite Education Group. "We are thrilled to be partnering with Minerva to push beyond traditional educational models and engage students holistically, offering advanced levels of knowledge with real-life application — and the Minerva Baccalaureate at Elite Open School is just the beginning. Never before in history have students and families had this kind of educational value proposition. Together, Minerva and Elite have many exciting new endeavors on the horizon to better the lives and education of our families and communities around the world."

For more information on The Minerva Baccalaureate at Elite Open School, please contact your nearest Elite Open School Learning Resource Center

About Elite Education Group

Elite Education Group, with its family of education schools and organizations, has been leading the way in providing K-12 education services, ranging from SAT and ACT prep to College Counseling to English learning to coding and, as of 2016, accredited middle school and high school courses and college preparatory pathways through Elite Open School. Founded by JP Park in 1987, Elite has been fixated on the goal of transforming education opportunities for each and every student. As a part of the World Economic Forum, Elite Education Group continues with new ventures with new partners to raise up the next generation of future global leaders. To learn more about Elite’s schools and organizations, visit eliteeducation.group

About Minerva Project

Minerva Project is a leading educational innovator, providing top-tier higher education offerings to its flagship Minerva Schools at KGI, as well as other educational and corporate partners. Founded by Ben Nelson in 2012, Minerva's mission is to nurture critical wisdom for the sake of the world. Building upon the best traditions of liberal arts and sciences education, Minerva is committed to preparing global leaders and innovators for the complexities of the twenty-first century. Its groundbreaking creation of a new university program is detailed in the book Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education (MIT Press). To learn more about the Minerva educational approach, visit www.minervaproject.com

The Minerva Baccalaureate is an advanced program for ambitious high school students

Building upon the best in contemporary high school curricula, the Minerva Baccalaureate is a transformative three- or four-year program that teaches students essential skills across disciplines. The program blends structured, personalized learning and engaging teacher-led classes with peers, offering the advantages of both individualized and fully active learning methodologies. Students learn in an accelerated format — including an option for one full year of college-level courses — that interweaves core subjects for deeper understanding, capability, and growth.

The program offers a number of benefits over the Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and A-Level models.

Blended Learning Model

Students learn through a blend of guided self-study and virtual active learning class sessions with peers. Coursework is supported by a robust set of structured online resources like readings and video. The flexible model is designed to enable program continuity no matter where students or teachers join class from.

More Engaging Classes

The curriculum utilizes personalized learning for information acquisition, while time in class is devoted to fully active learning in groups. Each week includes only two, fiftyminute class sessions per course. This structure emphasizes dynamic discussion and explorations, among classmates and teachers, as well as individualized study of the course content.

More Effective Education

The advanced learning environment and proven instructional practices integrate coursework with ongoing measurement across a specific set of learning outcomes. By tracking student participation, performance, and progress on a detailed level, over time, Minerva offers greater insight into each student’s intellectual development.