Student Outcomes and Influencing Factors: A Case Study of Minerva University
This qualitative case study examines student outcomes and the enabling and constraining conditions of a globally mobile and digitally mediated higher education model through an in-depth analysis of Minerva University. Employing a single case-study design, the study draws on semi-structured interviews with students, alumni, faculty, and staff, triangulated with institutional documents, reports, and multimedia sources. The analysis is oriented toward identifying patterned experiences and the mechanisms and contingencies through which learning, development, and post-graduation trajectories are produced within a tightly integrated configuration of active pedagogy, platform-mediated delivery, global rotation, and lean organizational design. Rather than asking whether the model is effective in aggregate, the study examines how it functions under real-world conditions, for whom it appears to work, and at what cost. Findings indicate that participants reported multi-domain outcomes spanning co...