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Mount Union College offers a liberal arts education grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition. The College affirms the importance of reason, open inquiry, living faith, and individual worth. Mount Union's mission is to prepare students for meaningful work, fulfilling lives, and responsible citizenship.
Mount Union was founded in 1846 by Orville Nelson Hartshorn as a place where men and women could be educated with equal opportunity, science would parallel the humanities and there would be no distinction due to race, color or sex.
Mount Union is proud of its religious heritage and its background in the Methodist Church. For more than a century the College has been officially connected with the Methodist Church. It is now affiliated with the East Ohio, West Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Conferences of the United Methodist Church.
Admission to the College has always been predicated on academic excellence and promise. Mount Union believes in the fundamental equality of all human beings and in the right of equal opportunity for all it seeks to serve and for all whom it employs.
Mount Union College is a 4-year, private, liberal arts college.
The College consists of 115-acre campus with an additional 109-acre nature center.
Mount Union is in Alliance, Ohio (population 25,000). The College is located 70 miles from Cleveland and 80 miles from Pittsburgh.
Mount Union College enrolls 2,400 undergraduates; approximately 53 percent women and 47 percent men, representing more than 20 states and 15 countries.
Eighty percent of the faculty at Mount Union have earned a doctoral or terminal degree with graduate training at some of the best-known universities in the United States and Europe.
Mount Union's student-faculty ratio is 14:1. The average class size is 19. Classes are offered Fall and Spring Semesters with a Summer Semester consisting of three sessions.
Mount Union has an active alumni base of more than 11,000 graduates located around the world.
The current endowment of the College is $120 million, placing the College in the top 10 percent nationally in endowment size.
The College's Annual Fund is strongly supported and brings nearly $1 million.
Mount Union sponsors 11 men's varsity teams: Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis and Wrestling.
Mount Union sponsors 10 women's varsity teams: Basketball, Cross Country, Golf, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis and Volleyball.
Mount Union's nickname is the Purple Raiders with the MUCaw, a purple parrot, as mascot. With school colors of purple and white, Mount Union competes in the Ohio Athletic Conference and in NCAA Division III athletics.
More than a dozen music performance groups are open to student participation. Major groups include the Marching Band, Concert Choir, Symphony Orchestra, Mount Union Alliance Chorale, Brass Choir, Jazz Band and several ensembles.
Nearly 70 percent of all students live on campus. A full range of social events are scheduled throughout the academic year, including dances, plays and films, art exhibits, lectures and other cultural and entertainment activities. The array of active campus organizations includes a student senate, newspaper, yearbook, literary magazine and FM radio station; four national fraternities, four national sororities and one local sorority; and various intramural sports. Dozens of other groups are devoted to academic, social and service pursuits.
Dr. John L. Ewing, Jr., the 10th president of Mount Union, is a native of Bridgeton, New Jersey. Ewing earned his B.A. degree in physical education from Asbury College in 1974. He later earned his M.S. degree in physical education specializing in exercise physiology from the University of Kentucky in 1975 and his Ph.D. degree in the same discipline at the University of Minnesota in 1982.
Dr. Richard Marriott, dean of Mount Union, earned his bachelor's degree in psychology/biology from Weber State University. He earned his master's and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of New Mexico. He is a native of Beaumont, Texas.
Sy Green, chairman of the Board of Trustees, is the retired executive vice president and managing director of Chubb & Son, Inc. Green is a 1964 graduate of the College.
The College can be reached at (330) 821-5320 or 1-800-992-6682.
Mount Union has been ranked for 13 consecutive years as a top regional liberal arts college in the Midwest and was also ranked as a Best Buy for regional liberal arts colleges in the Midwest.