Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic University is a state private university located in Katni, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The institution is part of the wider network of educational organisations inspired by the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, and combines modern academic disciplines with the study of Vedic knowledge.
| Name | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic University |
|---|---|
| Type | State private university |
| Location | Katni, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Country | India |
| Affiliation | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi educational network |
The university is named after Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (c. 1918–2008), the spiritual teacher who developed and popularised the Transcendental Meditation technique and established a series of educational and research institutions in India and abroad. The Maharishi network in India also includes schools, colleges and other higher-education bodies that incorporate Vedic studies, Sanskrit, Ayurveda and meditation alongside conventional academic programmes.
Madhya Pradesh has hosted several Maharishi-affiliated institutions, and the Vedic University at Katni was set up under the state's framework for private universities, which allows individual institutions to be established by dedicated state legislation.
As a state private university, the institution is empowered to award its own degrees in disciplines approved by the relevant statutory regulators in India. Universities within the Maharishi educational tradition typically offer programmes that blend mainstream subjects—such as management, education, computer applications and humanities—with courses drawing on Vedic literature, yoga and Ayurveda.
The university represents one of the institutional efforts in central India to formalise the study of Vedic disciplines within a recognised higher-education framework. Its location in Katni, a district headquarters in the Mahakoshal region of Madhya Pradesh, also contributes to the spread of higher-education facilities outside the state's larger urban centres such as Bhopal, Indore and Jabalpur.