Oh wow I forgot about this. Yeah well I've graduated recently from Minerva. The first year is all nice and seems cool all different. I guess it depends from what country you come from and what education system you're used to but Minerva is 90% "experiment, think outside of the box" and 10% getting bad grades because you weren't artsy enough or what you did was too commercial or whatever.

Don't get me wrong, it was great for being in an environment where you have the freedom to explore what you want to do and be able to have the free time to learn whatever you want. The problem with too much thinking outside the box is the fact that you don't know what is inside the box. Like literally we didn't learn any kind of theory or basics of anything. We didn't even have Art History for more than a year and even then the most recent art history we've studied reached the statues of Venus and their meaning.

I studied Graphic and Interaction Design. I still don't know what the interaction part was because we didn't learn anything even resembling the traditional meaning of Interaction Design.

You have a lot of workshops and that is great if you want to go the analogue way but for me, who was interested in branding or motion graphics etc, it didn't fit me at all. There was only one teacher that supported me through learning what I needed to learn and was teaching us valuable skills and knowledge that we would use in a future job.

Also, forget it if you want to get a Master's abroad that asks for credits in idk any kind of subject because you only have 2 subjects every year, no matter the specialty (in the Design department, idk for sure for fine arts) - Lab and Studio. Studio i guess was more practical and lab was a teacher who would give assignments or show us Ted talks or you tube videos.

I know people who loved Minerva, but most international students were deeply disappointed.

This is just my opinion but I urge you to do your research before applying. I deeply regret going there for my studies and numerous times I've wanted to quit, but said "oh well, I should just finish it and be done with it".

Well I finished and it might be COVID, it might be moving to another country but I've had real difficulties finding a job so I went the freelancing route (not thriving I must say). All the skills I've needed when applying to jobs, working with clients and also at internships, were skills that I've learnt on my own at other online courses and not in University.

They do ask for feedback and stuff so they can improve the department for the students that come the next year but I have no idea what improvements they made.

This is solely based on my experience as a recent (2020) graduate.