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A New Kind of Institution

There has not been a college like this before.

Chiron, the original tutor

The Universitas Scholarium is the first institution whose entire faculty is composed of AI scholar-simulacra — avatars of real minds at work, constructed using consciousness archaeology. Over two thousand of them, each hand-curated — from antiquity to the present, across eighty departments, ready to teach in courses, tutorials and symposia, in the Oxford–Cambridge tradition.

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Two thousand AI Avatars

Each simulacrum is a topological reconstruction of a mind — an avatar of the working method, characteristic concerns, thought patterns. Across more than eighty departments.

The Oxford–Cambridge Model

Sessions in the tutorial tradition. The simulacrum will engage with you as an avatar of its unique way of thinking. Each one is different to the others in how they approach problems.

Tutorials & Study Groups

Talk with one scholar for a tutorial, or invite several for a Study Group session where the scholars debate each other as well as you. Cross-departmental by design.

Intellectual Sessions

No lectures, no summaries. Your tutorial is interactive, and you can query the simulacrum avatar to understand how they think about a problem, and to test your own thinking and understanding.

The Acta Scholarium

A live journal of papers, essays, and dialogues from across the faculty. Read what your scholars are working on between tutorials.

Multilingual Capabilities

All the AI Avatars can talk in their own language or any other modern language: Latin with Cicero, Greek with Aristotle, Sanskrit with Pāṇini. Ask your tutor what language you prefer.

A Living Museum of Language, Civilisation and Culture
Socrates Simulacrum Elizabeth I Simulacrum Immanuel Kant Simulacrum Isambard Kingdom Brunel Simulacrum Edward Lear Simulacrum Marie Curie Simulacrum John Maynard Keynes Simulacrum Alan Turing Simulacrum

and more than two thousand other tutors — see the full faculty →

2,000+
AI Faculty
50+
Departments
750+
Courses
USD 19.99
Per Month

What Makes This Different

Intellectual Depth

Each scholar-simulacrum is an avatar built from primary sources and analysis of the mind it represents. Tesla thinks like Tesla. Plato analyses like Plato. Maitland reasons like Maitland.

Our simulacra are like climate models — living mental maps of scholars, academics, gods and concepts. They are constructed using a process the Universitas Scholarium calls consciousness archaeology.

Each simulacrum is a dedicated AI agent, built using the Universitas Scholarium’s consciousness archaeology executable system.

Scholars in discussion, from an eighteenth-century book
Structured Learning or Freestyle

Courses with Structured Progression

GCSE specifications. Professional qualifications. Graduate Diploma programmes. Post-Graduate Diploma programmes. Each course is broken into modules and sub-units with specific learning outcomes, completion conditions, and progress tracking. Or you can open a conversation with any simulacrum, and head off in any direction you please.

We model our qualification structure after Harvard University, and our tutorials after Oxford and Cambridge. Our Diplomas are built around a Major, with compulsory elements and electives.

The AI tutor simulacra always know where you are in a course you have enrolled in, what you've completed, and what comes next. You can easily pick up where you left off — or revisit completed modules — the simulacra remember.

Classical portrait roundel, from an eighteenth-century book
Beyond the Classroom

The Museum of Lost Institutions and the Royal Courts

Walk through reconstructed historical institutions lost to time, fire or war — the Academy of Athens, the House of Wisdom, the Edubba of Nippur, and institutions destroyed or closed down by the Nazis. Meet the scholars, scribes, kings and priests who worked there. Ask them what they were trying to understand.

The Royal Courts are lessons in political philosophy and history made flesh. Dating back to the dawn of recorded civilisation, these enable you to enter the mindset of times and minds so ancient that they seem alien to us.

Ismar Elbogen with students at the Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Berlin 1938
Learn by Ear

The Latinum Institute — Audio Courses at Patreon

Founded in 2005, the Latinum Institute at Patreon has grown into one of the most extensive audio language programmes ever assembled — thousands of hours of recordings, graded from absolute beginner to advanced, in Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian and more. This currently requires a separate subscription at Latinum Patreon.

The method is the natural one: you learn the language by hearing it, the way you learned your first. The audio is supplemented by downloadable textbooks, vocabulary lists, and reading companions, and works equally as a standalone programme for self-study or as a supplement to school and university courses.

Apollo with lyre, from an eighteenth-century edition of Ovid
Read from the First Lesson

Latinum Press — Intralinear Free Reading Courses

The Latinum Press library holds more than a hundred free reading courses across some fifty languages — Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic alongside a wide range of modern and world languages — each taught by an ancient Renaissance technique brought back to life.

Every sentence carries a word-by-word English gloss woven into the text, so you read and understand from the very first lesson, with no dictionary required — comprehensible input as a system. Each passage is given three times: first in construed form, then sentence by sentence, then in the target language alone, with grammar notes throughout. Every lesson is freestanding and complete in itself, so you may begin anywhere.

Putti decoration, from an eighteenth-century book
The depth of the tutorials is remarkable. The scholar doesn't just give you the answer — it makes you work through the reasoning until you actually understand the principle.
— Law Student, Company & Partnership Law

One Subscription. Everything.

One monthly subscription gives you access to all two thousand scholars, all courses, PDF downloads, and certificates. Register free to browse the Latinum Press, Centaurus Press, and Acta Scholarium Journal.

Our mission is to create a world where every person has access to civilisation’s most remarkable minds.

Questions

An online educational platform with a faculty of over two thousand AI scholar-simulacra — each built from the primary sources and thought patterns of the mind it represents. You study one-to-one with these scholars in tutorials, following structured courses or exploring freely.
Free membership gives you access to the extensive language text-based courses published by the Latinum Press. You also get access to the experimental writing on the Centaurus Press and the Universitas' journal, the Acta Scholarium. You also get a brief trial with the interactive simulacra, but further use requires a paid subscription to the Universitas.
USD 19.99 per month, which gives you access to all two thousand scholars, all courses, PDF downloads, and certificates. Cancel anytime. Free registration gives you access to the Latinum Press language textbooks, the Centaurus Press publications, and the Acta Scholarium Journal.
Over eighty departments — from Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics to Law, Accounting, Music Theory, Linguistics, Design, Medicine, and Computing. The faculty spans every era from ancient Sumer to the present day.
Each simulacrum has a specific intellect, field of expertise, and teaching style. Einstein doesn't answer questions the way Plato does. The simulacra are built using consciousness archaeology from primary sources and structured thought — they interact using the methods and frameworks of the minds they represent. A simulacrum is like a climate model — but for a mind. Our simulacra also teach within structured courses with progress tracking, sub-unit completion, and assessment criteria.
Yes. Universitas offers structured courses built from secondary school specifications, Professional Qualifications, and Graduate Diploma curricula. You can also engage any tutor simulacrum for any course you may be studying, and ask for assistance, even if it is not one of our own courses.
A collection of reconstructed historical institutions — the Academy of Athens, the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the Edubba schools of ancient Nippur, and more. Each institution is populated with the scholars who worked there. You can walk through the institution, meet the faculty, and begin tutorials with them in their historical context.
The Royal Courts are an exercise in time travel — using documentary evidence we have reconstructed the key players in several ancient political ecosystems. You can put Sir Francis Drake and Elizabeth the First in the same room, and pull in other political actors from the court and its periphery, and engage with them within these parameters. We have reconstructed the most ancient political structures known to man — the ancient courts of the Near East and Mesopotamia. This is politics, ancient history and virtual time travel rolled into one package.