Visitors to the school say that it is a beautiful garden of peace with delicious tropical fruits and a vegetarian cafeteria.

MUM partners with college in Rio
by Maharishi University of Management, Iowa, USA, The Review
16 June 2010

Last month Maharishi University of Management signed a contract with the Brazilian college Faculdades Integradas de Jacarepaguá (FIJ) to offer a joint MBA program—a step that will afford MUM students the opportunity to study in Rio de Janeiro.

Located in Rio, FIJ has both a daytime K-12 school and an evening business college with a capacity for 1,500 students. It is owned by a family that has been practicing the Transcendental Meditation program for several years. In 2006, they introduced the Transcendental Meditation program to their school students, and hundreds learned the practice.

In this MBA partnership, MUM will teach half the courses by distance education, supplemented by teaching assistants at FIJ, and FIJ will teach the rest. The FIJ courses will be taught in Portuguese, but all students will be expected to have an academic competence in English.

This International MBA Program will permit Brazilian students to attend MUM in Fairfield for a semester, and Fairfield students may take MUM courses at FIJ.

Vicki Alexander Herriott and Scott Herriott, co-chairs of the MUM business department, visited FIJ for a week in May to work out the details.

"The school is a beautiful place -- a garden of peace and calm in a crowded city," Ms. Herriott said. "We really want to offer Rotating University classes there. FIJ has a major in tourism, so it would be a great project for them to host our students. The tropical fruits are out of this world, and the school has a vegetarian canteen."

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