Andreessen Horowitz is putting $35 million into an unaccredited two-year alternative to college in San Francisco, the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, for students 16 to 22, according to Katherine Bindley at The Wall Street Journal. The school runs as its own business under Udemy co-founder Gagan Biyani, and Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia and OpenAI signed on as founding partners supplying software, compute, office space and internships. Applications open this week for a founding class that starts a tuition-free one-year program in fall 2027, and the two-year version follows in 2028 if regulators sign off, with tuition Biyani says will match elite private universities. As much as 80% of the program is project work rather than lectures, and instructors won’t need teaching credentials.
