вЂњItвЂ™s an online degree, but we have target cities because itвЂ™s still really important to help students build community. The school plans to introduce more programs and to take in new students every quarter, starting next year. Kibo has opened up the program to students in six cities across Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana, and those enrolled will be required to live at least 100 kilometers from these cities, to make it easy for occasional meetups. As a Woolf member, students enrolled at Kibo will earn European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) credits, which are transferable across the globe.

The program is accredited by Woolf, a collegiate university based in U.K. The school opened the application window for its full-time computer science degree, its inaugural program, yesterday, and aims to attract 100 students in the first cohort of the three-year degree program, which will have students paying a total cost of $6,000. This is not just a charitable thing itвЂ™s just a practical thing because Africa is where the opportunity for growth is,вЂќ she said. So, if you want to solve the worldвЂ™s future problems, literally the young people are going to be in Africa. WeвЂ™re the youngest and the fastest-growing continent. Kibo School team celebrates after winning the GSV Cup. The new funding brings the total capital raised by the startup to $2.4 million after last yearвЂ™s pre-seed round. Future Africa, Pledges, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Transcend Network and several angel investors also participated in the round.

And, its take-off is being propelled by a $2 million seed funding led by Neo, a VC firm by the co-founder of.

Kibo is an online school that is set to offer several STEM degree programs targeted at students in Africa. Omu is the former dean at Africa Leadership University while Cobb is a master teacher at Flatiron School who previously worked as curriculum engineer at Make School. Upon graduating, she embarked on a quest to make education easily accessible, keen to pivot on opportunities in the American edtech sector as she gained experience through roles that saw her digitize textbooks at Palo Alto Networks and later serve as the product lead at Google Classroom.Д«y the time she left Google in 2019, Bukola knew exactly what she needed to do to make quality education accessible and affordable, and after years of planning and studying the market, she was joined by Keno Omu and Rob Cobb to launch the Kibo School last year. Exposed to the top-of-the-line education at New York University, she wondered how her friends in Nigeria and other bright students in Africa could access the same. When she was 10 years old, Ope BukolaвЂ™s family relocated from Nigeria to the U.S., where she advanced her studies to later pursue a degree in economics.

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