Business Degree
Maharishi University of Management is pleased to offer South African students the opportunity to earn an American BA degree in Management via distance education. 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.
Students get to enjoy an internet-based learning program with all study materials using cutting-edge learner management software on the web, supported online with video conferencing from top professors from the United States, and guest lecturers in Europe and Asia. The program consists of four years of course work including both the theory and the experiential aspect.
Students will enroll directly to Maharishi University of Management.
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 the distance education degree 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
- Throughout your degree studies you are the responsibility of Maharishi University of Management, USA
- Intensive study program through distance education using state of the art software and online resources - this includes '24/7' access to MUM e-University site including class materials, chat line, questions and answers, and assignments
- Video-conference presentations by top international faculty and business leaders
- Management courses offer practical application for business success
- Aspects of the degree include ecological entrepreneurship — knowledge to lead the way with business insights for creating a better world incorporating 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
- Opportunity to graduate in the USA
- The option to have a semester exchange in the USA (cost available on request)
- Opportunity to spend time in nature in a private game reserve, Ezemvelo, which belongs to the Maharishi Institute
- Learn Transcendental Meditation and its advanced program as a pre-requisite, scientifically validated to reduce stress effectively, improve energy, and promote health.
- Study-centre support equipment includes IT and internet facilities
- An extensive 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)
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