Founding Philosophy
Why CSE was created.
Background
Traditional university education was designed for the industrial era. Spend 4 years memorizing theory, take exams, earn credits, and enter the job market with a diploma. But the technology industry has already changed completely.
Companies look at what you can build, not your GPA. Investors look at products and revenue, not resumes. Customers pay for products that solve their problems, not degrees.
CSE was founded to create an education that matches this reality. What students take with them when they graduate is not a diploma — it's a real product generating real revenue.
Education Philosophy
The education philosophy of CSE can be summarized in one sentence.
"Make something people want."
A person who can make something people want. That is the kind of person CSE aims to develop. To achieve this, we've integrated everything from computer science fundamentals to product development and business operations into a single curriculum.
Instead of learning theory and taking exams, the education itself is the process of immediately applying what you learn to build real products, deploy them to real users, and generate real revenue.
Core Principles
Projects are the center, not lectures. Every Phase ends with a real product deployment. You write code, not slides. You build products, not reports.
No grades, no attendance, no exams. The only evaluation criteria is your output. Do you have users? Do you have revenue? Have you reached $10,000 MRR?
There are no fixed semesters. If you can learn fast, go fast. If you want to go deep, go deep. You set your own timeline.
100% of the IP for products students build belongs to the student. CSE takes no equity whatsoever. What you build is yours.
Graduation Criteria
CSE has exactly one graduation requirement.
$10,000 MRR
Monthly Recurring Revenue
This isn't just a number. Achieving $10,000 MRR means:
- You can build a working product from scratch, end to end.
- You can solve a problem valuable enough that people will pay for it.
- You can find, convince, and retain customers.
- You understand and can execute on both technology and business.
- You can succeed on your own — whether joining a company or building one.
That's a stronger signal than any degree.