The Best Maker Schools

2021

 THE MAKER MOVEMENT AND ITS DO-IT-YOURSELF ethic has come to higher education. For years now, empowered by the internet, inventors, artisans, tinkerers and hackers of all descriptions have been coming together to share ideas and techniques and show off their creations. The culture that has grown up around those gatherings, be they online or at the 200 Maker Faires held annually before the pandemic or in the more than 2000 communal makerspaces around the world, is one of learning by doing, complex problem solving, collaboration and entrepreneurialism. Increasingly, those ideas have been picked up by traditional academic institutions.

This year for the first time has teamed up with Make:, publisher of magazine producer of Maker Faires, to find The Best Maker Schools in Higher Education. These are universities, community and junior colleges, vocational and trade schools with curricula that encourage