Our Impact
The difference of social-impact driven education
Insipiring Changemakers
Empowering diversity for a global impact
UWC Mahindra College inspires changemakers through impactful initiatives across the global UWC network. By embracing diversity, the college fosters an inclusive environment where students engage in transformative projects. These initiatives include community development, social change, and educational empowerment, driven by the college’s commitment to creating a positive impact. Alumni and students lead these efforts, demonstrating the power of diverse perspectives in driving meaningful change. The college’s approach highlights the importance of experiential learning and active participation in building a better world.
How MUWCI makes an impact
Our students go on to study at universities around the world, building on their passions and commitment to creating a better world.
Through education
Our students go on to study at universities around the world, building on their passions and commitment to creating a better world. Recognising the potential of MUWCI students, representatives of more than 100 universities visit campus for enrolment.
Through diversity
Diversity matters at MUWCI. Our deliberate diversity enriches learning and provides unique opportunities for students to mature into socially aware, collaborative and empathetic individuals ready to take on influential roles a multicultural world.
Through scholarships
Our Student Scholarship Fund gives deserving applicants the MUWCI experience even if their families are unable to afford our fees. Thanks to donations we receive, we extend admissions to students of all economic backgrounds based on their potential.
Through sustainability
We aim to live in a sustainable world, and we develop on campus programs 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.
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, Akshara programme, cultural celebrations, and employment opportunities.
Through engagement
Learning at MUWCI goes beyond theory, into the real-world impact and understanding of issues. Our students have an immersive educational experience, interacting with the local community, visiting other parts of India, and learning from one another.
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 programs, 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 lens of our beneficiaries.
Environmental Sustainability: Missing Pieces of the Puzzle
My fellow gardeners and I stand over the garden bed puzzled as to how all of our corn crops seem to have had the tops chopped, or perhaps eaten off. We leave the farm that evening convinced there is a corn snatcher on the loose. A few weeks earlier in the biodiversity...
Seema Circle: Challenges of sustaining impact
UWCMC, in its dreams and idealism, is sometimes vulnerable to what Chiamanda Adichie calls “the single story.” Indeed, stories around impact in communities around us do present a rosier picture than most would agree. A single story of triumph emerges from the...
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