About Andrews University
What if earning a degree wasn't only about preparing for a career?
What if your education also helped you understand your calling, deepen your relationship with God, and discover how the abilities you've been given could be used to serve other people?
That's the vision behind Andrews University.
Located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, Andrews is a Seventh-day Adventist Christian university where faith and education are meant to grow together. Students come to study everything from theology and healthcare to architecture, business, education, science, and the arts.
But underneath those different paths is a shared mission:
Seek Knowledge. Affirm Faith. Change the World.
It Started With a Mission
Andrews University's story begins in 1874 with Battle Creek College.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church was still relatively young, and its leaders saw education as an important part of preparing Christians to serve the church and carry the Gospel into the world.
Interestingly, that same year John Nevins Andrews left the United States to serve as the denomination's first official missionary outside North America.
His life would eventually become closely connected with the university's identity.
The school moved to Berrien Springs in 1901 and became Emmanuel Missionary College. After the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary and graduate programs relocated to the campus decades later, the institutions were brought together.
In 1960, the university received the name it carries today—Andrews University.
Faith Doesn't Stay Outside the Classroom
At Andrews, Christian education isn't meant to be ordinary education with a few religious activities added afterward.
Faith is intended to shape the learning itself.
Faculty members are encouraged to approach their disciplines through a Christian worldview and help students consider how their education connects with God's purposes.
A nursing student isn't simply learning how to perform a job.
They're preparing to care for people.
Someone studying business can think seriously about integrity and stewardship. A future teacher can consider the responsibility of shaping another person's life. A theology student can prepare to faithfully teach Scripture and serve the church.
The subject changes.
The larger question remains:
How can what you're learning be used for God?
A Campus That Looks Like the World
Walk across the Andrews campus and you're likely to meet people whose stories began thousands of miles apart.
The university enrolls students from most U.S. states and nearly 100 countries and territories.
That international presence reflects something deeply connected to Andrews' history.
The school was created within a Christian movement committed to global mission. Generations later, the world that Adventist missionaries once traveled outward to serve is also represented within the university community itself.
Students learn alongside people from different cultures while sharing a campus centered on Christian faith.
That can turn education into something larger than what happens inside a classroom.
Learning to Serve
Eventually, knowledge has to go somewhere.
Andrews encourages students to use what they're learning in service to others.
That might happen close to campus through community engagement or much farther away through mission opportunities.
Students can participate in service projects, travel with departments on mission experiences, or spend extended time serving as student missionaries.
The idea behind those opportunities isn't that everyone has to become a traditional missionary.
It's that every Christian can live missionally.
A physician can serve God through medicine. An architect can design spaces that improve people's lives. A teacher can influence generations of students.
Calling can follow you into whatever profession comes next.
World Changers Made Here
Andrews often describes itself with another phrase:
World Changers Made Here.
Changing the world sounds enormous.
But at Andrews, it begins much smaller.
It begins when someone discovers what they're capable of and develops that ability. Faith becomes deeper. Knowledge becomes useful. A student begins seeing their career not simply as a way to make a living, but as an opportunity to live with purpose.
Eventually, that student graduates.
And the real test of the education begins.
At the heart of Andrews University is the belief that education should develop more than a successful professional. It should shape a whole person—someone prepared to seek truth, grow closer to God, use their abilities in service to others, and carry the mission of Christ into whatever part of the world they're called to influence.
