Elon Musk is planning to start a UNIVERSITY in Austin after seeding $100 million to charity called The Foundation that will start with a focus on STEM in primary and secondary school

Elon Musk is planning to launch a university in Austin after seeding $100 million to his latest charity, named The Foundation. 

The billionaire's Texas institution will be started with a STEM-focused primary and secondary school, which will expand into a university 'dedicated to education at the highest levels', according to tax filings seen by Bloomberg. 

The school will employ a traditional curriculum 'alongside hands-on learning experience including simulations, case studies, fabrications/ design projects and labs', according to the October 2022 application that was approved in March. 

Musk's venture into education comes as he has become a frequent critic of America's schooling, telling biographer Walter Isaacson this year that 'unless the woke mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human in general, is stopped, civilization will never become multiplanetary.' 

According to the reported filing for tax-exempt status, Musk's university will aim to employ an 'experienced faculty' and will seek accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. 

Musk previously launched a school for five of his eleven children, opening the ultra-exclusive 'Ad Astra' school on SpaceX's California campus in 2015. 

The small school, shrouded in secrecy and only open to a select few of his employee's children, moved to Austin in 2020 when Musk fled California for the Lone Star State during the pandemic. 

Amid growing unrest over the state of education in America, Austin is also set to host another ambitious institution, the University of Austin. 

Backers of UATX, including venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale and businessman Larry Summers, say it intends to address the 'gaping chasm between the promise and reality of higher education.' 

It is unclear whether Musk may choose to take his university down a similar route, however it appears likely given his past remarks that elite institutions are indoctrinating students with 'full-on Communism.' 

For his STEM primary and secondary school, Musk is reportedly expecting an initial class intake of 50 students.

The tax filing also noted that the school is seeking to hire an executive director, teacher and administrator. 

Musk is launching the institution through his charity The Foundation, which serves as one of the central pillars of his philanthropic organization Musk Foundation. 

He sent $2.2 billion of Tesla stock to his Musk Foundation last year, subsequently moving $100 million to start his university. 

The billionaire's charitable giving has also seen him reportedly make large donations to disaster relief nonprofit World Central Kitchen, Khan Academy and a fund at Fidelity Charitable. 

Currently standing as the richest man in the world with a net worth of $220 billion, Musk has more plans for Austin than just education. 

He is also reportedly creating his own town near to the city, with subsidized housing for employees at SpaceX and Tesla, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

The town is still awaiting some approvals, but would include recreational facilities, another school, and thousands of acres bought up by the entrepreneur in recent years.  

Musk has previously opened up on his own troubles at school when he was a child, telling biographer Ashlee Vance in 2015 that his childhood in South Africa was hampered by severe bullying. 

In one incident, his classmates pushed him down a concrete stairwell, recounting in the biography: 'They got my best f******* friend to lure me out of hiding so they could beat me up. And that f******* hurt.

'For some reason they decided that I was it, and they were going to go after me nonstop. That’s what made growing up difficult. For a number of years there was no respite. 

'You get chased around by gangs at school who tried to beat the [expletive] out of me, and then I’d come home, and it would just be awful there as well.'

But as far as his own children's experience at school, so far, Ad Astra 'seems to be going pretty well,' according to Musk. 'The kids really love going to school.'