Our Impact
The difference of social-impact driven education
Insipiring Changemakers
Empowering diversity for a global impact
When you join the MUWCI community and the larger UWC movement, you gain the tools, skills, and experiences that give you the confidence to attempt what others consider difficult and impossible. You achieve a level of independence that gives you the courage to initiate inspiring projects and complete them successfully.
MUWCI helps you become an independent, responsible, risk-taking, and knowledgeable person who asks the right questions, embraces new experiences, and is keen to make a positive change, however small.
Many MUWCI students have worked on transformative projects for community development, social change, and educational empowerment, driven by a commitment to creating a positive impact. MUWCI’s experiential learning programme, which is its greatest strength, ensures active participation in building a better world. The achievements of several MUWCI alumni in making the world a better place are a testament to this.
How MUWCI makes an impact
Bringing together deserving individuals and helping them discover their passion and purpose.
Through scholarships
Our Student Scholarship Fund gives deserving applicants the MUWCI experience even if families are unable to afford the fees. Thanks to generous donations from alumni and supporters, we extend admissions to students of all economic backgrounds based on their potential.
Through diversity
Our approach to diversity is deliberate and designed to to bring students and faculty from different regions in close contact with one another. This deliberate diversity creates unique opportunities for students to mature into socially aware, collaborative and empathetic individuals.
Through engagement
Learning at MUWCI goes beyond theory, to real-world impact and understanding of issues. The academic and experiential learning programme create an engaging, challening educational experience for students, which requires travel, interactions with the local community, collaboration, and learning from one another.
Through sustainability
We aim to live in a sustainable world, and we develop on- and off-campus programmes and projects to bring us closer to this goal. From organic farms to watershed restoration projects, MUWCI is creating the sustainable ecosystem we want to live in. Every student at MUWCI learns to value living in harmony with nature.
Through service
Our community extends outside our campus boundaries and into the local villages. We have strong ties to the locals through our service learning programmes, project weeks, and Akshara programme. Students regularly travel off campus to engage in various service projects.
Through guidance
Our University Guidance Counselling Office (UGCO) provides extensive support to students in exploring opportunities beyond MUWCI and securing scholarships at universities worldwide. We also organise college fairs, career fairs, networking opportunities, and support gap-year students.
A large community worldwide
Countries represented on campus
Students on partial scholarships
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Students on full scholarship
Local NGO service partners
Field trips across India
Local villagers host students
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Waste segration at source
Akshara
Our local social-impact initiative at MUWCI
Over the last 15 years, Akshara has undertaken more than 30 interventions in the neighbouring 12 villages under various programmes, including the Equal Access to Opportunities, Janeev, Khelghar, and Setu – all key interventions targeted towards personality development, literacy and numeracy, remedial classes among K12 students across government school in the valley. Besides education, Akshara has also served village women by providing livelihood opportunities.
Impact stories
Learn how MUWCI directly impacts lives and the environment through stories from the community.
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