Northwest University is a regionally accredited, Christian coeducational institution offering a wide variety of associate, baccalaureate, master's and doctorate degrees. It consists of the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Business and Management, the School of Education, the Mark and Huldah Buntain School of Nursing, the College of Ministry, and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The University is located in Kirkland, Washington, a suburb of Seattle on the east side of Lake Washington. Northwest was started as a Bible Institute by the Northwest Ministry Network of the Assemblies of God USA and is still operated under the control of the Alaska, Montana, Oregon, Northwest, Southern Idaho, and Wyoming districts of the Assemblies of God. The mission of the university according to their website, “is to provide, in a distinctly Evangelical Christian environment, quality education to prepare students for service and leadership.” The idea for starting a Bible institute in the Northwest started in 1928 at an annual meeting of the Northwest District Council of the Assemblies of God. J.S.