Mount Union College

Mount Union College is a 4-year private, liberal arts college in Alliance, Ohio. 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." In approximately 1911, Scio College of Scio, Ohio merged with Mount Union, moving faculty to the Mount Union campus and abandoning the ... more

Mount Union College is a 4-year private, liberal arts college in Alliance, Ohio. 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." In approximately 1911, Scio College of Scio, Ohio merged with Mount Union, moving faculty to the Mount Union campus and abandoning the Scio campus. Mount Union College will become Mount Union University on August 1, 2010. Seventy-seven percent of the faculty at Mount Union have earned a doctoral or terminal degree with graduate training at universities in the United States and Europe. Mount Union College enrolls 2300 undergraduates. Approximately 52 percent are women and 48 percent are men, representing more than 20 states and 15 countries. Mount Union has an active alumni base of more than 13,000 graduates located around the world. Admission to the College has always been... less