In a Washington Post opinion piece, billionaire Peter Thiel asserts that college is the final stage of a competitive tournament in which kids at the top enjoy prestige because they’ve defeated ...

The Thiel College Tomcats football team, 0-8 on the season, lost its 25th straight game when it fell Saturday to Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh, 40-7. Wait! Thiel? Haven’t I seen that college on ...

In 2011, Peter Thiel launched a controversial education program to pay college students $100,000 to drop out. The program was widely criticized with many noting the hypocrisy of Thiel, who holds ...

He's given 24 young adults $100K to skip the degree and start a business. May 26, 2011 — -- PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel knows a thing or two about finding the next big thing. Thiel was the ...

Thiel, who has called college “the default activity,” told USA Today that “the pernicious side effect of the education bubble is assuming education [guarantees] absolute good, even with ...

Peter Thiel plans to give 20 more young people $100,000 not to go to college. Thiel started the fellowship in 2010, encouraging students to skip school and start companies instead. The effort has ...

Clockwise from top left: Peter Thiel with first-year fellows Dale Stephens, Paul Gu, Sujay Tyle, Andrew Hsu, and Gary Kurek Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and prolific angel investor, sparked ...

Conversely, he thinks college is so overrated that he will pay students $100,000 to drop out. In 2011, Thiel launched the Thiel Fellowship, a program that offers $100,000 grants to young ...

Dylan Field dropped out of an Ivy League school in 2012 to take a grant from the billionaire Peter Thiel and start a software ... young adults to leave college and start companies with $100,000 ...