Olivet Nazarene University, a denominational university in the Wesleyan tradition, exists to provide a university-level liberal arts â€Education With a Christian Purpose.†Our mission is to provide high-quality academic instruction for the purpose of personal development, career and professional readiness, and the preparation of individuals for lives of service to God and humanity. â€We seek the strongest scholarship and the deepest piety, knowing that they are thoroughly compatible (and) … a Christian environment … where not only knowledge but character is sought.†(Quotation from the Olivet University Catalog, 1915)
