Mission Statement
Higher Education for Higher Consciousness
At Maharishi International University, we recognize that everyone has an infinite field of creativity, intelligence, and happiness within. Our mission is to help students awaken this field in their everyday experience, enriching all aspects of their lives.
We expand the traditional scope of education to nurture the whole person: consciousness, mind, body, and relationships. We welcome students who want to develop their full potential through a holistic education that integrates the growth of consciousness with cutting-edge knowledge and invaluable career skills.
We call this Consciousness-Based education.
Consciousness-Based education combines daily practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi with an approach to learning grounded in deep, universal principles of life - principles rooted in the world’s most ancient and venerable knowledge traditions, now verified by the latest scientific breakthroughs. The TM technique enables students to optimize brain functioning and grow demonstrably in intelligence, creativity, learning ability, and overall well-being - the foundation for personal fulfillment and professional success.
We offer innovative academic programs that emphasize experiential learning and core skills that will serve students throughout their lives, no matter where their journey takes them. Our professors are dedicated to helping students achieve their goals and to continuously improving teaching and learning. Through their scholarship and creative work, faculty expand and apply profound knowledge of both consciousness and their academic disciplines. In every course, students experience how all fields of knowledge are interconnected and emerge from consciousness, their own Self. This enables students to understand knowledge deeply, feel at home with every subject, and become genuinely excited about learning and developing their own consciousness’s full potential.
Our students thrive in an inclusive, mutually supportive community that welcomes people from all belief systems and walks of life - a community where everyone is committed to personal growth, raising the quality of collective consciousness, and addressing urgent societal needs to change the world for the better.
Founding Goals
Maharishi International University was founded in 1971 with the following seven goals:
- To develop the full potential of the individual.
- To realize the highest ideal of education.
- To improve governmental achievements.
- To solve the age-old problem of crime and all behavior that brings unhappiness to our world family.
- To bring fulfillment to the economic aspirations of individuals and society.
- To maximize the intelligent use of the environment.
- To achieve the spiritual goals of humanity in this generation.
Core Values
Our Core Values at Maharishi International University express key principles that inform, guide, and serve as touchpoints for our educational and management practices and campus culture.
Development of Consciousness
We are committed to developing our full potential - intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual - through the application of proven technologies of consciousness, including the Transcendental Meditation technique and its advanced programs. We are further committed to serving society through group practice of these technologies, scientifically demonstrated to promote positive trends and reduce negative trends in society. Finally, we are committed to preserving our Founder’s unique and invaluable scientific knowledge of consciousness in its completeness and purity, generation after generation.
Engaged Learning
We value engaged learning and inquiry centered around students, where students deepen knowledge, build vital skills, challenge assumptions, stretch boundaries, and serve their community and their world. Faculty embrace innovative best practices and expect to learn as much as the students. The faculty and students connect the deepest, most important ideas in their field with universal principles of consciousness, inspiring the students to actualize their own unlimited potential. Students, faculty, and alumni lead lives of continuous learning, service, and growth.
Health and Happiness
We value health and well-being, safety and enjoyment, positivity, and fun.
Inclusive and Responsive Community
We welcome and celebrate a rich diversity of cultures, backgrounds, identities, and values in a community that cultivates openness and togetherness, authenticity and respect, kindness, and mutual support.
A Thriving World
We are dedicated to solving humanity’s pressing environmental and social challenges, with a vision of creating a world of peace and prosperity, compassion and justice, and harmony with nature.
Accreditation and Authorizations
Maharishi International University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) The Higher Learning Commission is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
Higher Learning Commission (HLC)
230 South LaSalle Street, Suite 7-500
Chicago, Illinois 60604-1411
Phone: (800)621-7440 or (312)263-0456
Fax: (312)263-7462
Email: info@hlcommission.org
Web: hlcommission.org
Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)
One Dupont Circle NW, Suite 510
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202)955-6126
Fax: (202)915-0818
Email: chea@chea.org
Web: chea.org
The College of Business Administration at Maharishi International University has received specialized accreditation for the following business programs through the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE):
- BA in Business and Entrepreneurship
- MBA in Accounting
- MBA in Entrepreneurship
- MBA in Enterprise Resource Planning and Analytics
- MBA in Sustainable Business
- PhD in Management
The IACBE grants accreditation for business-related and accounting programs that are equivalent to an education at the U.S. post-secondary degree level. Locations and delivery modes for program offerings are at the sole discretion of the Member.
International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE)
11960 Quivira Road, Suite 300
Overland Park, KS 66213 USA
Phone: (913)631-3009
Fax: (913)631-9154
Web: iacbe.org/
Maharishi International University is a fully independent, nonprofit Iowa corporation and is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Campus Location
The MIU campus is in Fairfield, Iowa, 50 miles west of the Mississippi River in the central United States. The 361-acre campus, with 1.2 million square feet of teaching, research, recreational, and living space, is situated on gently rolling hills.
Maharishi International University
1000 N 4th Street, Fairfield, IA 52556
Phone: (641)472-7000
Web: miu.edu
Nondiscrimination Policy
Maharishi International University believes that all educational and employment decisions should be based on an individual’s performance and qualification and not on irrelevant factors such as personal characteristics or happenstance of birth unrelated to academic or job performance. The University considers sex, age, race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, and gender identity to be irrelevant factors.
In addition, the Maharishi International University is committed to compliance with all applicable laws regarding nondiscrimination, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1963, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The application of this policy ensures that every individual at the university will be treated with equal dignity and that opportunity is equal for all persons.
Anyone who has any concerns or inquiries regarding this policy should feel free to contact the MIU Title IX Officer, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, 52557, (641) 209-1879, ext. 117, croesler@miu.edu or the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. Lyndon Baines Johnson, Department of Education Bldg. 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20202-1100 Telephone: 800-421-3481 FAX: 202-453-6012; TDD: 877-521-2172 Email: OCR@ed.gov.
Maharishi International University abides by interpretations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which states that higher education institutions may not discriminate based on a disability. Maharishi International University offers the following services: advocacy with university staff and faculty; needs assessments and referrals to appropriate campus resources; coordination of accommodations.
If you have a documented disability that may require accommodations, please see the Accessibility Officer so that proper accommodations may be arranged. MIU’s Accessibility Officer, Lydia Hickman, can be reached at lhickman@miu.edu or by calling (641) 919-9494. Information is also found on the university web page. https://students.miu.edu/accessibility-services
Consumer Information Policy
Maharishi International University makes available to the public, upon request, all consumer information required by the Office of Education Rules and Regulations. Consumer information about the University includes, but is not limited to, the following: academic programs, educational costs, financial aid, academic progress requirements, student retention rates, and crime statistics. This information is available from the Registrar’s Office or Enrollment Center in the Dreier Building on campus in Fairfield, Iowa.
Program and Policy Changes
The university reserves the right to change, at any time, without prior notice, programs of study, course offerings, academic requirements, the academic calendar, codes of student conduct, tuition, room and board charges, and other fees, policies, and procedures. The University will determine the times at which all such changes are effective. Changes may apply not only to prospective students but also to those who are already enrolled in the university.
Students have the right to graduate under the degree requirements that are either (1) published in the MIU Catalog in effect at the time they are admitted (including re-admission) to their degree program, or (2) published in the MIU Catalog in effect for the semester in which they graduate.
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