Applications Open!
Undergraduate & Graduate | Fall 2025
Discover Your Gifts
You have gifts inside you that the world is waiting to receive.
At NNU, we’ll help you discover just how transformative you’re created to be. Explore undergraduate, graduate and professional courses here at our campus in beautiful Nampa, Idaho, or our online programs serving thousands of students globally.
Develop your God-given gifts. Transform the world.
Undergraduate
God-given potential.
Graduate & Professional
Online
Find Your Program:
Experience a different kind of university.
Undergraduate Students
Grad Student/Faculty Ratio
Online Students
Undergraduate Average Class Size
Graduate Students
Admissions Deadlines
Important Dates
ROLLING ADMISSION – YEAR-ROUND
In The News
Northwest Nazarene University Announces Its 14th President
Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) is pleased to announce the election of Dr. Mark DeMichael as its 14th president. Dr. DeMichael was introduced to the NNU community during a special Community Chapel service on Monday, March 10, following a press conference earlier...
Feature Story
Northwest Nazarene University Announces Its 14th President
Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) is pleased to announce the election of Dr. Mark DeMichael as its 14th president. Dr. DeMichael was introduced to the NNU community during a special Community Chapel service on Monday, March 10, following a press conference earlier...
NATIONAL SUCCESS: NNU FORENSICS TEAM EARNS TOP HONORS
The Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) Forensics Team recently returned from the National Christian College Forensics Tournament, held at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, bringing home an impressive collection of awards. Every NNU student who competed...
Northwest Nazarene University Announces Its 14th President
Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) is pleased to announce the election of Dr. Mark DeMichael as its 14th president. Dr. DeMichael was introduced to the NNU community during a special Community Chapel service on Monday, March 10, following a press conference earlier...
Profiles: Kendrey McGath, Undergraduate Student
Each issue of the Messenger, we provide a profile for one NNU faculty member, one staff member, one undergraduate student and one graduate student. Meet Kendrey McGath, our undergraduate student profile for Winter 2025. NAME: Kendrey McGath MAJOR/MINOR: Politics,...
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS
Northwest Nazarene University admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs and athletic and other school-administered programs.