I&#x27;m curious what would happen , if we gather a few classes of intelligent highly motivated students , arrange them a cheap nice place to live , give them them great educational content(not the stuff you get out of today&#x27;s mooc&#x27;s , the good stuff that the UK&#x27;s open university - an expert in remote learning - designed over decades) , give them some support and some tools(labs , parts, etc) , and connect them through the web to their respective communities.<p>Surely that could be much cheaper. But would be just as good ? maybe.<p>And as for prestige ? if you build the admission process on extremely high standards , and offer something unique that the big universities won&#x27;t offer , maybe you&#x27;ll manage to get extremely talented students. And that&#x27;s the key for building prestige.<p>Makes sense ?<p>EDIT: one more question - once you&#x27;re an esteemed graduate of this institution ,sort of a &quot;navy seal&quot;, in this day and age where talent is the limited resource in making money(and surviving in business), how hard would it be to arrange the networking ?<p>Ans isn&#x27;t all this kinda like what ycombinator did?