CNU could stand for:
University
edit- Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
- Cebu Normal University, Philippines
- Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan
- Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
- Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia, US
- Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
Police
edit- Crisis Negotiation Unit, a special police unit for hostage, barricade, and suicide situations
Others
edit- Cameroonian National Union, later Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
- Congress for the New Urbanism
- CNU (singer) (born 1991), Korean