Mount Vernon Nazarene University provide a rigorous academic program that encourages scholarship, critical reflection, and problem-solving; promote a distinctively Christian lifestyle within the Wesleyan evangelical tradition; and offer a supportive environment that inspires students to achieve their highest potential spiritually, intellectually, socially, and physically, as they prepare not only for a career but also for meaningful service to God and humankind wherever their vocational choices under the leadership of God take them.