Friends university

Friends University, a Christian University of Quaker heritage, equips students to honor God and serve others by integrating their intellectual, spiritual and professional lives.

As searchers and learners, we support curiosity and research, and assign great value to diversity of experience. As people who value such diversity and openness, we approach new situations and people with good will and humility. We believe in equity and in the dignity of all people.

As a community, we accept and cherish our responsibility to care for one another in our learning and working relationships. We understand that a part of that care must be to become better stewards of what we have been given. We take care of the future as if we already are there.

Friends is the university that almost wasn’t, until James M. Davis and the Quakers stepped in and established what would become a beacon of perseverance, intellect and spiritual enlightenment.

The wonderful students, faculty and staff who comprise our campus community have helped Friends University earn several awards and accolades, including 2015 – 2016 College of Distinction, College of Christian Distinction and College of Kansas Distinction, 2015 Military Friendly School, Council for Christian Colleges & Universities Affiliate Campus and Foundations of Excellence First Year.