Maharishi International University Business Programs

Located in Fairfield, Iowa, Maharishi International University is a private not-for-profit institution. The surrounding location of Fairfield is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

Where Is Maharishi International University?

Contact details for MIU are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1000 North 4Th Street, Fairfield, IA 52557
Phone:	641-472-7000
Website:	www.miu.edu/

How Do I Get Into MIU?

You can apply to MIU online at: https://www.mum.edu/application/

Admission Requirements for MIU

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	neither required nor recommended
Recommendations	required
SAT or ACT Scores	neither required nor recommended
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into MIU?

MIU has the high acceptance rate of 100%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 28% of accepted students are men and 72% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 100%, and the acceptance rate for women is 100%.

Can I Afford Maharishi International University?

The overall average net price of MIU is $18,410. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At MIU, approximately 80% of students took out student loans averaging $6,919 a year. That adds up to $27,676 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at MIU is 6.8%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

Maharishi International University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 541 undergraduate students at MIU, with 331 being full-time and 210 being part-time.

There are also 1,474 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 331 full-time undergraduates at MIU, 26% are male and 74% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Maharishi International University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	7
Black or African American	32
Hispanic or Latino	40
White	141
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	105

Geographic Diversity

Iowa students aren't the only ones who study at Maharishi International University. At this time, 13 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 80 countries are represented at MIU. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Nepal, Ethiopia, and China.

Online Learning at Maharishi International University

In 2019-2020, 1,344 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at MIU has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 15th most popular in Iowa for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of MIU

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Maharishi International University was $16,530 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how MIU is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Accounting and Business/Management	#3	#3
Organizational Leadership	#32	#23

Online Growth Rankings of MIU

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Maharishi International University was 3.3%. This is the #1,422 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at MIU regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at MIU ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at MIU.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Organizational Leadership	#279

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Maharishi International University Business Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	77	29	1	107
Accounting and Business/Management	0	27	0	27
General Management Information Systems	0	7	0	7
Organizational Leadership	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	77	63	1	141

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Wiki User: Keithbob under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.