The University of Mount Union is a private university in Alliance, Ohio. Founded in 1846, the university was affiliated with the Methodist Church until the spring of 2019. I.n the fall of 2020, Mount Union had an enrolment of 1,958 undergraduate and 220 graduate students
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, colour, 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 was renamed the University of Mount Union effective August 1, 2010
Student life
Mount Union’s radio station is 91.1 WRMU, and the campus paper is The Dynamo.
The university’s music program offers participation in numerous bands and choirs, including Concert Choir, Mount Union Alliance Chorale, Opera Workshop, Alliance Symphony Orchestra, Repertory Strings, Marching Band, The Raider Steel Band, Jazz Band, Percussion Ensemble, and more.
The Theatre Department puts on two productions every fall, and varying productions in the spring. Every spring semester alternates between a musical and a straight play every year for the main stage show, and every spring there are also student-directed one-acts. Theatre productions are open to all students, regardless of major or class rank.