Business Degree
Maharishi University of Management is pleased to offer South African students the opportunity to earn an American BA degree in Management. Our goal is to raise the creativity of business management in Africa to keep pace with the most advanced economic nations of our world family.
The part-time Bachelors Degree in Business Administration program is offered by Maharishi University of Management in the United States to students in South Africa through distance education. Students get to enjoy an internet-based learning program, supported online with video conferencing from top professors from the United States, and guest lecturers in Europe and Asia. Maharishi Institute in South Africa is a recognized Maharishi University of Management Study Center and it provides expert in-classroom tutors for students who choose to have this additional study-support. The program consists of four years of course work including both the theory and the experiential aspect whereby students participate in the Invincible Outsourcing Stepping Stones program.
Students will enroll directly to Maharishi University of Management, as well as paying separately for materials and the tuition-support program through the Maharishi Institute.
The distance-education Bachelors degree is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission in the USA as well as accredited by the International Assembly of Collegiate Business Education, and is recognized in South Africa by SAQA, the South African Qualifications Authority.
This unique business-degree curriculum develops both practical expertise in management while at the same time developing the inner creative genius of every student. This will give you the advantage you need to be successful in today’s highly competitive and rapidly changing world.
Maharishi Institute Program Benefits
- Earn a recognized American business degree while in South Africa via distance education
- Intensive study program offers distance education with a classroom-support experience which means higher pass-rates
- Classes are held at the Maharishi Institute, and in-class Tutors provide support for every lesson
- Video-conference presentations by top international faculty and business leaders
- Management courses offer practical application for business success
- Focus on ecological entrepreneurship — lead the way with business committed to creating a better world, and on sustainable business practices
- Unique curriculum includes the systematic development of consciousness
- Develop the full potential of your brain physiology for more effective managing ability — advanced mental functioning, increased creativity and intelligence, improved memory
- International networking with other students and alumni in South Africa and around the world in campus-sites in USA, China, Brazil, and India
- Dual graduation option, in the USA and South Africa
- The option to have a semester exchange in the USA (cost available on request)
- The South African program includes deep rest and revitalization Forest Academies, with tutorial classes in nature in a Private Game Reserve, Ezemvelo, which belongs to the Maharishi Institute
- Natural health management training: stress reduction and comprehensive health workshops will help you learn about improving your health
- Learn Transcendental Meditation and its advanced techniques, scientifically validated to reduce stress effectively, improve energy, and promote health.
- Fun along the way: being a student at MUM, enrolled through Maharishi Institute, means lots of fun celebrations and a truly great learning atmosphere.
- Central and easy access to all means of transport in Johannesburg city
- Full study-centre support equipment, including: IT and internet facilities available
- A fully equipped library
- Video-conferencing facilities
- A small gym and games-room
Degree Subjects include:
Phase 1:
- Foundation topics that can count for transfer credit, 38 units
- Principles of Leadership and Culture
- WTG 191 College Composition 1
- MGT 200 Principles of Business Success
- Personal Finance: Personal Money Management
- Practicum in Management: Workplace Readiness
- Computer-User Skills
- STC 108 Science and Technology of Consciousness
- SL201: Understanding Ecology, Economy and Community (Science Distribution)
- PH101 Physiology Is Consciousness
- eMarketing
Phase 2:
- Lower Division courses for transfer credit, 38 units
- MATH 152 Elementary Algebra (prerequisite: Maths Foundation courses)
- MGT 220 Principles of Economics
- MGT 382 Management and Organization
- WTG 192 College Composition 2 (prerequisite English foundation courses)
- MGT 429 Human Resource Management
- MGT 201 Business Communication
- MATH 153 Intermediate Algebra (prerequisite MATH 152)
- Forest: Academy
- Four blocks of Practical Electives (8 units)
Phase 3:
- Forest Academy
- MATH 153 Intermediate Algebra (prerequisite MATH 152)
- MGT 220 Principles of Economics
- MGT 402 Managing for Sustainability
- MGT 314 Statistics
- MGT 404 Managerial Accounting
- MGT 425 Marketing Management
- Forest Academy
- MGT 430 Financial Management
- MGT 432 Entrepreneurship Project
- 3 blocks of Practical Electives (6 units)
