The Maharishi University of Management

Date: May 25 2012
Major: Natural Resources (This Major's Salary over time)
This school is misleading. I don?t understand how it is accredited. This school lied to me, by saying the curriculum was most important, when all they care about is you becoming part of the TM cult, and adding to the false scientific idea of the ?Mahrishi Effect? and ?Super Radiancy?; all pseudoscience with biased statistics.

They worship Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as an infallible saint. His word is gods word to them. I wasted a 1.5 years of my life there before I left and went to a real college. The classes are a joke, everything revolves around how Mahesh is correct, and every discipline is a reflection of his correct cognition/interpretation of the Ved. They state it?s not a belief system, but they believe the Mahesh and other yogis cognized the ?truth? of the universe.

They charge you to learn TM, yet they call it a birthright. This place is every definition of a cult. It has an infallible leader, the cut themselves off from society, they are correct and other religions are wrong (they would just say the ved is seen in every other religion), and if you disagree or don?t see ?the light?, they ask you to leave.

When I went there, they segragated men and women in most classes, didn?t let you ware jeans or have facial hair, forced you to do meditation and made you scan a badge with an ID # do make sure you showed up, claimed to be non-sectarian but didn?t allow people to practice other forms of mediation, and always claimed how Mahesh and the movement were correct, how TM was the ?best? form of mediation, and how TM was the only way to save the world.

They also forced me to live on campus until I got a doctors note, detailing how the mold in the dilapidated dorms was causing respiritory issues. Plus they act like they are sustainable, but they do not have one LEED certified buildings only registered (I?m a LEED Accredited Professional and verified this), they care more about Vastu (Mahesh?s form of Sthapatya Vedic architecture) than non-toxic buildings. They also forced everyone to walk in east or north entrances because of their beleifs. The dorms only entrance in that directiont was the fire escape. We were not allowed to use the main entrance.

I tried working with them the whole time I was there, but in the end, I realized this was a cult, not an evil organization, but a cult who took the word of Mahesh as absolute truth. This is not a post secondary school, but an ashram for a sect of American Hindus.

I strongly warn anyone against attending who isn?t a devote of Mahesh or their particular sect of hinduism.