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.
== Affiliations ==
As one of eight U.S. self-described "liberal arts colleges" affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene, the college receives financial backing from the Nazarene churches in its region. Part of each church budget is paid in to 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 (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota), Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Kansas City, Joplin, and Missouri districts.
MNU is a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. MNU has been accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central …
