At Maharishi University of Management, Consciousness-Based Education forms a foundation for professional success and personal fulfillment.

Universities that value "wellbeing" likely to create better career outcomes
by Maharishi University of Management website
March 2104

Gallup, a global research organization that has been measuring attitudes and behaviors through its public opinion polls for 75 years, crystallizes the thrust of its many studies as a simple goal: to understand and measure wellbeing.

After concluding a workplace-engagement survey of 22 million employees worldwide, Gallup has identified five key areas essential to wellbeing. They are career, financial, social, community, and health.

In an article published in 2013, “Is College Worth It? Yes, But We Need New Metrics*,” Brandon Busteed, executive director of Gallup Education, expands the definition of wellbeing to highlight the influence of higher education. “People often view wellbeing as [just] happiness or health, but it is much more than that, and it is closely tied to education,” he writes.

“Success as defined by wellbeing is less about a student getting a higher paying job and more about figuring out what he or she likes to do and what he or she does best,” writes Busteed. “Leaders in higher education should set their sights on helping their students and graduates achieve not only well-paying jobs, but also wellbeing.”

So how does a university help to create wellbeing in its students? Is there an educational philosophy or technique that can best do that?

Wellbeing and Maharishi University of Management

Creating wellbeing is an overarching goal of Maharishi University's Consciousness-Based Education (CBE), which takes an “inside-out approach” in helping young people find themselves and their path into the working world. CBE takes students deeply and experientially into their own Self or inner nature, which deepens their thinking and helps them more fully integrate the content of their studies, knowledge, and internship experience.

Consciousness-Based Education, pioneered at MUM, cultivates integrated brain functioning, systematically develops creativity and intelligence, and connects a rigorous approach to academics with each student’s personal “growth of consciousness”—which in turn creates greater wellbeing.

How Consciousness-Based Education Works

Twice daily practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique allows students to “dive within” and experience the universal field of unbounded awareness that is present within everyone and everything.

Consciousness, clarity, and creativity expand, enabling students to understand each discipline at its deepest level and perceive the world in an increasingly unified way. Optimized learning organizes lessons based on knowledge of the unity of all life, showing each part as connected to the whole.

Increased wellbeing results, including improved health, diminished stress, greater intelligence, balanced personality growth, increased self-esteem, and improved relationships. These form a foundation for professional success and personal fulfillment.

* Article published in Trusteeship (July/August 2013), a publication of The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB),

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