The curriculum is made up of three parts - the Main Course, the Foundation Studies, and the enactment of the academic work in the daily routine of life at the college. Students reside on the grounds to attend intensive main courses for two to five weeks at a time. The scholars are people chosen for the significance and originality of their work, and for their accomplishment as communicators. Resident staff and visiting lecturers support each course with foundation studies, on topics which provide a context for the main course themes. This project may take a variety of forms, and it may be a group or collaborative effort.
Assessment comes at the request of the student.
Certificates of Attendance are given upon completion of a course. Because the issues raised during courses are of great importance and can seldom be separated from questions of personal transformation, students must expect to find the work emotionally as well as intellectually demanding. Accordingly, it represents a pioneering attempt to establish a center in which the conceptual, social and moral dimensions of new world-views can be put to the test. Only 40 students participate in each course. Satish was raised in the Jain tradition of non-violence and was also deeply influenced by the teachings of Gandhi.