The Mahindra United World College of India is one the twelve campuses worldwide under the United World College banner, lead by Nelson Mandela and Queen Noor of Jordan at the time of its design in the mid-1990’s. Patronized by doyens industry, the Mahindra family, the college accommodates about two hundred students from over sixty countries, on an integrated residential campus. It is located in the picturesque Sahyadhri Mountains of the Western Ghats, about one hundred kilometers southeast of Mumbai, on a plateau one hundred meters above the Mula River basin.