Statement Freed-Hardeman University is a private institution, associated with churches of Christ, dedicated to moral and spiritual values, academic excellence, and service in a friendly, supportive environment. The purpose of the university is to provide every student an undergraduate or graduate education permeated with these Christian values. In accomplishing its purpose, the university pursues the following three aims. Alumni living in all fifty states and in more than thirty-five other countries. The university offers a limited number of master's-level graduate programs as resources, needs, and interest permit, offering advanced preparation for service.
Most research is focused on institutional or instructional improvement.
Arts, science, and professional degrees are conferred. The goals of the university can best be pursued when a qualified Christian faculty teach and inspire students to learn and when all instruction and activities recognize and honor biblical truth and principles. The university is governed by a self-pertetuating board of trustees who are members of churches of Christ and who hold the institution in trust for its founders, alumni, and supporters. Freed-Hardeman, its faculty, and its students receive support from alumni, churches, and other friends and provide a variety of services to businesses, churches, nonprofit organizations, and to the general public. Freed-Hardeman seeks to provide a liberal arts education for all students primarily through its general education and general degree requirements.