Rentals
MNU has the best-confirmed future dates of any school in the area, which makes this the easiest graduation to plan far ahead.
Confirmed: Saturday, May 8, 2027 and Saturday, May 6, 2028, both with ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
The ceremony address is not the campus address
Commencement is at College Church of the Nazarene, 2020 E Sheridan St, Olathe, KS 66062, in the Sanctuary. The campus is at 2030 E. College Way, next door, but a different address. Put the church in the GPS, not the university.
This is stable: the same church with identical parking and accessibility wording appears in MNU's 2023, 2024 and 2026 pages. MNU's own Bell Cultural Events Center, Cook Center and Land Gymnasium are not used for commencement.
Two ceremonies, one Saturday
Traditional Undergraduate at 10 a.m.; Professional Undergraduate and Graduate at 3 p.m.. Each runs about two hours. Nursing Pinning is the Friday evening before.
Two ceremonies means two arrival and departure peaks in one day at a church parking lot. If yours is the afternoon one, you are arriving as the morning crowd leaves.
What MNU publishes for guests
Specific and genuinely guest-facing:
- "A handicap accessible entrance is located at the north entrance that is covered by an awning."
- "There is wheelchair accessible seating in various spots throughout College Church of the Nazarene."
- "There is open parking during commencement activities in the College Church of the Nazarene parking lots located on the East and North sides of the church."
Since the accessible entrance is on the north side, the north lot is the closest accessible approach. Head there first.
- Named contact: Shawnda McLeod, 913.971.3393. Also the Registrar, registrar@mnu.edu / 913-971-3626.
- Doors open one hour before each ceremony.
- "Seats may not be saved after 9:30 am" for the morning ceremony, or "after 2:30 pm" for the afternoon one.
- Strollers are prohibited in the sanctuary and must be parked in the lobby, as are balloons, signs and party poppers.
That seat-saving rule is the one to plan around. If your party is arriving in shifts and someone is holding seats, the holding stops half an hour before the start. Whoever walks slowest should not be the one arriving last.
A realistic note about the venue
This is a church, not a university arena. Parking capacity and seating are the church's, and MNU publishes no capacity figure. "Wheelchair accessible seating in various spots" is a helpfully honest phrase. It means spaces exist around the sanctuary rather than a single marked ADA section, so arriving early to find a good one matters.
We deliver a scooter, wheelchair, transport chair or rollator to your hotel in Olathe or wherever you are staying in Johnson County, charged and ready. MNU does not recommend specific hotels (its page links a generic third-party hotel finder), so you are choosing freely, and we deliver across the metro either way.
Booking
Tell us the date, the ceremony time and where you are staying, and we will have the equipment there, cleaned, charged and ready, before you need it. Commencement weekends are the tightest dates in our year, because every family in the same position is booking the same morning. Call as soon as you know the date rather than the week before.
KC Mobility Scooter Rentals is an independent rental company. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking on behalf of any college or university, and we do not control any campus or venue policy. Details here were read from each school's own published pages in September 2026. Always confirm the current year's arrangements with the school before you travel.