What Union Adventist University is like

What it's like

Union Adventist University is a small, faith-centered private college in Lincoln, Nebraska, owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. With 439 undergraduate students as of 2025, it maintains a tight-knit community rooted in Adventist values and education. The campus, situated in the College View neighborhood, blends historic architecture—including a 1916 Carnegie library on the National Register of Historic Places—with modern facilities developed during major expansions in the 1970s.

Academic feel

The university offers a broad liberal arts education across eight colleges: Business and Computer Science, Emergency Management and Exercise Science, Fine Arts, Human Development, Humanities, Nursing, Religion, and Science & Math. Beyond undergraduate degrees, it provides graduate programs in Leadership, Occupational Therapy, Public Health, and Physician Assistant Studies. Research activity spans theology, art history, archaeology, economics, library science, and botany.

Strengths

• Offers a range of professional graduate programs including Occupational Therapy, Public Health, and Physician Assistant Studies alongside master's degrees in Leadership.[1]
• Campus features the Joshua C. Turner Arboretum, a site of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum with over 100 species of plants.[1]
• Hosts the College View Public Library, a 1916 Carnegie library listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

Weaknesses

• Limited athletic opportunities with membership in the Association of Christian College Athletics (ACCA) rather than a major college sports association, leading teams to compete primarily against bible colleges, community colleges, and JV teams.[1]

Traditions

• Hosts three annual tournaments for Seventh-day Adventist high school teams in basketball, soccer, and volleyball.[1]