The World Needs
your Big Idea
Earn your Bachelor’s degree while Designing & Launching your Social Enterprise, Non-Profit, or Business.
We exist to form entrepreneurial young adults to solve our future’s most critical challenges.
We believe the best way to learn is through engaging in meaningful dialogue and work.
We reject the traditional model of large classrooms and lecture halls. Instead, we’ve designed an incubation lab for thinkers, doers, and entrepreneurially minded students to build something meaningful.
We study the great ideas that came before us. Instead of taking routine introductory classes, we read Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, and other luminaries of thought.
Let’s discover, design, pilot, and launch your big idea together.
“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
- SOCRATES
We are Christ-Centered
Our Liberal Arts Degree is divided into two categories: Foundational Thought and Entrepreneurial Arts. We believe exceptional work requires fortifying our minds and our hearts through deep study and purposeful spiritual formation
Affordable, pay as you go
Graduate from college without debt. We offer a subscription model at $1,333 per month (16k annually), pay as you go.
A new type of college
Learn alongside thinkers, creators, and entreprenuers in an incredible co-working space in Costa Mesa, CA.
We reject traditional classrooms
We’ve designed an incubation lab for thinkers, doers, and entrepreneurially minded students to build something meaningful.
Our Incubator Model
Year 1: Discover
Explore critical questions about your unique design and purpose. What are you created for? You'll gain self-awareness of your vocation and calling within the context of innovation.
Year 2: Design
Begin developing a product, program, or service aligned with your identity and leadership. You'll continue to grow in faith and leadership, shaping your ideas and strategies.
Year 3: Pilot
With your big idea refined, start building out your ministry, business, non-profit, or service. This year is about putting your concepts into action and testing them in real-world scenarios.
Year 4: Launch
In your final year, you'll have the chance to create your own full-time job or organization. Each student will have the support from our partners to be successful.
Create alongside Hildegard faculty and entrepreneurial mentors to design and launch your big idea.
Just a few of our faculty and incubator mentors below.
Blythe Hill
Director of Hildegard’s Incubation Lab
Blythe started Dressember by challenging herself to wear a dress every day in December. This personal challenge grew into an international movement, raising millions to fight human trafficking.
CRITICAL PROBLEM SOLVED:
Human Trafficking
Co-Founder of Hildegard
Jeff is the founder of The Formation Agency, a people-centered organization development group that coaches, trains and certifies purpose driven CEOs or large organizations.
CRITICAL PROBLEM SOLVED: Business Strategy for the Common Good
Jeffrey L. Tanner
KC Holiday
Hildegard Mentor
KC Holiday was the founder of QALO, a family-first brand that did $100M+ in direct to consumer sales. Now, he’s a head mentor at Daily Mentor, a mentorship community for the next generation of entrepreneurs.
CRITICAL PROBLEM SOLVED: Renewing Human Connection in a Culture of Individualism
