Who We Are
UniversityNow is a social venture based in San Francisco, CA, whose mission is to ensure that a quality higher education is available to people everywhere. We are the parent company of two universities:
Our schools offer rigorous, flexible and accredited academic programs, available on our brand new online learning platform and on-campus at Patten University in Oakland, CA.
The College Works Scholarship
The College Works Scholarship Program offers working adults
the opportunity to earn an undergraduate degree at no cost.
We're proud to launch College Works with the support of our partner communities: Oakland, Sacramento & San Francisco, California.
Residents and workers in our partner communities can use their tuition assistance benefit to attend a UniversityNow school at no cost.
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What People Are Saying
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"Gene and his team are basically saying, the heck with [grants and loans that actually prop up college prices]... We think people can afford it if we offer it at this low a price… [and] that could be revolutionary." - Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education
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"The myth that UniversityNow challenges here is, in part, that students need to go into debt to achieve their degrees." - Audrey Watters, Inside Higher Ed
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"The mission of UniversityNow is to help ensure that affordable, high quality post-secondary education is available to people everywhere. To accomplish this, UniversityNow is building a network of the most affordable and accessible accredited universities in the world, starting with the launch of New Charter University." - Wayne Sutton, TechCrunch
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"What you see on their Web site is the clear influence of recent trends in online commerce: an ultra-clean user interface, the ability to sign up with your Facebook or Twitter account, the influence of 'gamification' in the way the course experience is designed, and so on." - Kevin Carey, The Chronicle of Higher Education
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"With UniversityNow's recent exciting launch of the low-cost, competency-based New Charter University, making college fundamentally affordable to students and society looks like it might not be a pipe dream for much longer." - Michael Horn, Forbes
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"UniversityNow is certainly not the only company working to disrupt the traditional higher education model... What makes [it] different... is its emphasis on making online higher education affordable." - Kent Bernhard, Jr., Upstart Business Journal
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"We don’t need to reinvent Harvard... We need to build a school that works for everyday people. To do that, [UniversityNow] is creating a network of low-cost, accredited universities that let students complete courses at their own pace." - Ki Mae Heussner, GigaOm
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"Investors believe [the] for-profit, high-tech approach to college education will make a social impact while turning a real profit.... Most companies in education have been 'cobbling existing [technical] solutions together' to provide online course offerings to students. In contrast, UNow’s product is being built with consumer web DNA." - Lora Kolodny, Wall Street Journal
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"The goal is to help people who might not otherwise get a college degree, due to cost or other commitments... and many of them in the U.S. can get their tuition covered by a tax credit." - Liz Gannes, All Things Digital
Why We Care
"I became an education entrepreneur because the current system does not have the capacity to serve people with unique higher education needs."
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