AMEU was organized in 1995 by Bishop Cornal Garnett Henning, Sr. and leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, during his administration as presiding prelate.

[2] In 2003, Louise C. York served as president of the university, and accounting was the most popular major at the Christian school.

[3] As the commencement ceremony proceeded that year, the 185 graduates could hear mortar shells exploding in the background as rebel forces attempted to take the capital.

[4] A scam by students at the school in February 2006 cost the university US$100,000 (~$145,438 in 2023) in lost funds,[5] which resulted in the arrest of four people the next month.

[9] The school held its eighth commencement in November 2007 at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex, with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as the convocation speaker.