Our 2025 Strategic Vision

For 138 years, the University of Silicon Valley has been a pioneer. We established the first Polytechnic university west of the Mississippi, preparing generations of students for the technical demands of their time.

Now, we pioneer again.

The world no longer rewards narrow expertise divorced from broader understanding. The future belongs to those who can move fluidly between disciplines—who unite making and thinking, art and engineering, technical mastery and humanistic discernment.

USV is in the process of becoming the world's first polymathic university—uniting liberal and technical arts to shape Renaissance minds of the 21st century.

We will be dedicated to the formative education of learners who are not captives of credential, but catalysts of consequencs

Our learners will defined by their works that advance culture, technology, and society for the common good.

8 Design Aspirations for University of Silicon Valley

Artisans of Purpose

Students pursue truth, beauty, and goodness made manifest in their work, where technical mastery is inseparable from character and aesthetic discernment.

Polymathic Mastery

Our curriculum unites making and thinking, art and engineering, liberal and practical arts—forming interdisciplinary minds, paced by ambition and tailored to each learner.

Faculty of Practice

Faculty are active practitioners—artists, founders, technologists—whose primary work extends beyond campus and who bring that expertise directly into the formation of talent.

Formative Stakes

Education unfolds through projects with real clients and public audiences—developing holistic learners through works of genuine consequence.

Stewards of Ingenuity

Students wield today's tools with mastery and discernment—forging tomorrow's with inventive resolve to meet the demands of an ever-changing world.

Place as Pedagogy

The university embeds itself in Silicon Valley's physical networks of technology, capital, and culture—leveraging the valley's experimental and innovative spirit as our environment for learning.

The university embeds itself in Silicon Valley's networks of technology, capital, and culture—leveraging the valley's innovative spirit as our environment for learning.

Consequential Agency

Students are empowered to exercise genuine authority over their work—making decisions, accepting accountability, and shaping outcomes that matter beyond the classroom.

Responsibility in Perpetuity

The institution accepts responsibility for the quality and character of those who bear its credential—selecting for potential, forming for excellence, and championing for life.