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." Admission to the College has always been predicated on academic excellence and promise.

Eighty 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 2,400 undergraduates; approximately 53 percent women and 47 percent men, representing more than 20 states and 15 countries. Mount Union has an active alumni base of more than 11,000 graduates located around the world.

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.

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.