Ottawa University "prepares professional and liberal arts graduates for lifetimes of personal significance, vocational fulfillment, and service to God and humanity" from residential campuses in Ottawa, Kansas (established 1865) and Surprise, Arizona (established 2017) and from professional and online campuses in Kansas City, Phoenix, and Milwaukee. Offers of employment (campus based and remote) may be extended only to individuals who reside within one of the following registered states: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin.