Anderson University is a private Christian college in Anderson, Indiana. Founded in 1917 by the Church of God, the university remains affiliated with its founding church and values its heritage and history.

While firmly rooted in the traditions and history of the Church of God, the university has made significant advances in its 95 years, progressing from a Bible training school to a full-fledged liberal arts college and finally to a university offering more than 60 undergraduate majors, as well as graduate programs in business, music, nursing, and theology.

Today about 2,600 students call Anderson University home. Among these, more than 2,000 are undergraduates while over 550 are enrolled in graduate programs. Our students come from almost every state and 22 nations, and represent about 71 religious denominations.

Approximately 98 percent of AU students receive financial aid in a variety of forms, including scholarships, grants, loans, and part-time work-study employment. Students who apply for and receive aid based on financial need receive an average aid package of $20,000.

The mission of Anderson University is to educate for a life of faith and service in the church and society.

Established and sustained within the free and open traditions of the Church of God, this university is committed to being a teaching-learning community of the highest order, engaged in the pursuit of truth from a Christian faith perspective.

Through academic and Christian discovery, we intend to graduate people with a global perspective who are competent, caring, creative, generous individuals of character and potential.

We will build those quality programs that will enable each member of the university to become stronger in body, mind, and spirit, to experience what it means to love God and neighbor, and to adopt Christ-like servant ways in all of life.

We Don't Believe ...

• that college educations — or college graduates — are manufactured.
• that conformity is the goal.
• that students start at the same places in their educational journeys — or that they have the same needs, challenges, gifts, and talents.
• that face-to-face teaching and mentoring by faculty members is outdated or irrelevant.
• that academic excellence and Christian humility are at odds.
• that students come to us as students only.
• that learning — or faith — is dry, stuffy, or stale.
• that wisdom exists without integrity.
• that "personal responsibility" is a tired cliché.
• that leaders can emerge without the experience of service.
• that giving means losing.
• in the boundaries of artificial conventions.
• that freedom exists without responsibility.