"UWC Mahindra College sits on 175 acres in the Sahyadri Hills, overlooking the Mulshi and Kolvan valleys."
Founded in 1997, it is India's only United World College. The campus is an open, residential community where architecture, landscape, and daily life are designed to work together rather than separately.
The MUWCI campus was designed by the award-winning architect Christopher Benninger, who drew on traditional Indian architectural forms. Wadas, staggered steps, courtyards, and lotus ponds shape the layout. There are no enclosed corridors separating academic and residential life. You move between classrooms, the library, the cafeteria, and student residences entirely in the open.
An open campus
The openness in the design is not incidental. It means the campus functions as a continuous community where learning and daily life happen in the same space. Local wildlife—including reptiles, birds, insects, frogs, squirrels, peacocks, macaques, langurs, and several dozen butterfly species—is part of the everyday landscape.
Campus Tour
Walk the hillside — the wadas, the biodome, the library, the Mulshi valley across the boundary wall — from where students see it every day.
What makes this campus different
Rural setting
The campus sits outside the city, in a rural area of the Sahyadri Hills. That setting builds a close-knit community on campus while also connecting students to the neighbouring villages and the wider Mulshi community.
Award-winning architecture
Every structure on campus, from classrooms and the cafeteria to the residential Wadas, is designed to sit within the landscape rather than impose on it. The architecture creates spaces for both focused work and unhurried conversation.
Biodiversity reserve
Van Vihar, MUWCI's biodiversity park and reserve, covers approximately 85% of the campus. It protects the ecosystems that surround the college and ensures that the community and the surrounding wilderness coexist.
