Brenau’s 50-acre main campus Brelocated in Gainesville, Georgia, approximately 50 miles northeast of Atlanta, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Mission
The University challenges students to live extraordinary lives of personal and professional fulfillment.
While students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees or non-degree programs at Brenau campuses and online, each prepares for a lifetime of intellectual accomplishment and appreciation of artistic expression through a curriculum enriched by the liberal arts, scientific inquiry and global awareness.

The Brenau University curriculum is built on classes and experiences that:
- expands student's worldview;
- develops students' creativity and imagination;
- helps students discover the beauty of science and math;
- refreshes and refines a wide range of communication and language skills.

The Four Portals approach to learning at Brenau, designed to reveal connections between many different areas of academic exploration, is the essence of a classic liberal arts education. Such multifaceted learning reaches across disciplines, providing an extraordinarily unified education. It's active and engaged. Here, students will learn by doing, by using what they learn in one class to help solve problems in another. These are lessons that last person's whole life.

The University offers 16 online degree programs on the undergraduate and graduate levels. These programs are offered entirely online using the popular Blackboard delivery platform.