Introducing Trevecca

General Information About Trevecca

  • Trevecca's Mission Statement: Trevecca Nazarene University is a Christian community providing education for leadership and service.
  • Founded in 1901.
  • Fully accredited comprehensive institution of higher education located in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Academic offerings - 47 undergraduate majors and 5 associate degree majors in 4 schools - Business, Education, Religion, and Arts and Sciences
  • Master's degrees are available in religion, education, management, physician assistant, library and information science, and counseling psychology.
  • Two doctorateas are offered--Ed.D. in education and Ed.D. in clinical counseling.
  • Trevecca's degree completion program for adults, Nashville's first program of this type, is offered on campus and at 5 other locations - Gallatin, Columbia, Crossville, Tullahoma, and Clarksville, Tennessee.
  • Intercollegiate sports offered. For men- basketball, baseball, golf, soccer.  For women- basketball, softball, golf, soccer, volleyball, cheerleading.
  • Trevecca Nazarene University, a church, a healthcare center, and a retirement center share a hill in Nashville and a name--Trevecca Community.
  • Trevecca is a Christ-centered university that is guided by the teachings of the Church of the Nazarene, a denomination in the Wesleyan tradition. 
  • Trevecca welcomes students from any religious affiliation who desire to learn in a Christian environment.
  • Trevecca's distinctiveness is that it is a holiness institution of higher education which presents a Christian interpretation of the truth.
  • Campus life at Trevecca emphasizes "community," and encourages students to extend "community" to others-- allowing opportunities to serve locally in underprivlidged areas and globally in relief efforts.
  • Trevecca's motto is esse quam videri, which means "to be rather than to seem."  Members of the University family are called to become persons of character, to be authentic, and to  understand that they must be and not merely seem (or appear to be).