University Campus
Maharishi University of Management is located in Fairfield, Iowa, a few hours from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Madison, and Minneapolis. Iowa City, home of the University of Iowa, lies an hour to the north.
Surrounded by woods and fields, the 272-acre campus is green and peaceful, and notable for its attention to environmental conservation. The campus master plan incorporates renewable energy and state-of-the-art building technologies.
The 1.2 million square feet of university buildings include:
The Student Union has a café, bookstore, movie theatre, ballroom, video library, and other features. The Campus Bookstore offers gifts and fine organic foods. The Student Union Theater hosts films and live performances, while a large downstairs ballroom is the site of everything from Latin dance classes to fashion shows. The upstairs lobby hosts student mailboxes, and a DVD and video rental shop offers over 1,500 titles.
The Recreation Center is fully equipped with weight room, gymnastic equipment, basketball hoops, volleyball courts, tennis courts, ping-pong tables, track and a 28-foot rock climbing wall. Outside are outdoor tennis courts, a soccer field and a swimming pool with an adjoining sand volleyball court. Within a five minute walk is a two-lake reservoir, ideal for kayaking, canoeing and windsurfing. The lakes are surrounded by a 17-mile jogging and cycling trail.
Student Residence Halls provide spacious, comfortable single rooms, complete with furnishings and high-speed Internet connections. Most residence halls are equipped with rooms for exercise, TV and recreation including billiards and table tennis.
Annapurna Dining Hall has received widespread recognition for pioneering delicious, organic vegetarian campus dining. The menu is almost entirely organic and is cooked fresh daily. Entrees include pizza, enchiladas, Chinese stir-fry, and Indian peas with panir. Organic mango ice cream, made from the milk of local cows, is a favorite in summertime. The dining hall always offers a salad bar, organic fruits, granola, teas and milk. Food is prepared without the use of onions and garlic. Students are free to bring their own condiments.
The Main Library includes more than 140,000 volumes, 60 reference databases, 7000 electronic books and more than 12,000 full-text periodicals. The library also maintains a campus-wide closed-circuit television network with over 10,000 hours of videotaped and audiotaped courses, conferences and presentations. Additional facilities include a multimedia computer lab, network plug-in ports for laptop users, the campus art gallery and support for international distance education students.