MidAmerica Nazarene University

MidAmerica Nazarene University (MNU) is a Christian liberal arts college in Olathe, Kansas, United States. It was established in 1966 by the Church of the Nazarene.

Mid-America Nazarene College (MANC) was founded in 1966.In 1996, Mid-America Nazarene College formally changed its name to MidAmerica Nazarene University (MNU).

The 105-acre (42 ha) campus is located at 2030 East College Way, Olathe, Kansas, United States.The land was donated by Robert R. Osborne, a retired banker.Proposed sites for the college also included Wichita, Topeka, and Ottawa, Kansas.

As one of eight U.S. liberal arts colleges affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene,[9] the college receives financial backing from the Nazarene churches in its region; part of each church budget is paid into a fund for its regional school. Each college is also bound by a gentlemen's agreement not to actively recruit outside its respective educational region. MNU is the college for the North Central Region of the United States, which comprises the Dakota-Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Kansas City, Joplin and Missouri districts, which include North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri.

MNU offers undergraduate degrees in 40 majors, and seven graduate degrees in education and business. More than half of the full-time faculty at Mid-America Nazarene hold doctoral degrees. The academic calendar is on a semester system.There were 1,720 students at the college in 2007, 1,295 of whom were undergraduates.The 2007 acceptance rate for students who applied to the college was 81.1 percent.