Elon Musk Plans To Start His Own University; Internet Reacts With Jokes, Questions

Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk is reportedly planning his next business venture: a STEM-focused primary, secondary school, and university in Texas.

The future Supreme Ruler of Mars has ties to Texas since he moved there during the pandemic.

The university is being funded with a donation of $100 million by one of Elon Musk’s charities, The Foundation, and will be located in Austin, Texas, according to a tax filing first spotted by Bloomberg.

The Foundation name appears to be a reference to the science fiction book series written by Isaac Asimov.

“The premise of the stories is that in the waning days of a future Galactic Empire, the mathematician Hari Seldon spends his life developing a theory of psychohistory, a new and effective mathematics of sociology,” reads the book series’ description on Wikipedia.

“Using statistical laws of mass action, it can predict the future of large populations. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a Dark Age lasting 30,000 years before a second empire arises.

“Although the momentum of the Empire’s fall is too great to stop, Seldon devises a plan by which ‘the onrushing mass of events must be deflected just a little’ to eventually limit this interregnum to just one thousand years.”

According to an Internal Revenue Service application for tax-exempt status, obtained by Bloomberg, the primary and secondary schools will be built first then he “intends ultimately to expand its operations to create a university dedicated to education at the highest levels.”

The IRS application states that Musk’s schools in Austin will have a traditional traditional curriculum “alongside hands-on learning experience including simulations, case studies, fabrication/design projects and labs.”

News of Musk starting up his own university was met with a wide variety of jokes on social media.

“Musk has never said s— he doesn’t follow through on though right?” read another comment.

Well, he did promise that he would have one million robotaxis on the road by the year 2020.

Names suggested on social media for the new college? X University, Edge Lord University, Clown University, Carnegie Ellon, and, of course, Texas Institute of Technology and Science.

He’s working on it.