Vision
Arba Minch University aspires to be a leading university in Ethiopia, a centre of excellence in the field of water resources in Africa and competitive in the world by 2020.
Mission
Arba Minch University has a mission of offering relevant and quality education and training; conducting demand driven research and rendering accessible community services.
Goals and Objectives
The University shall have the following goals and objectives:
Goals
- Ensure the quality and expansion of education and training
 - Advance research and consultancy works in various fields
 - Improve services to the community
 - Develop a conducive environment for learning and teaching
 - Increase the revenue, minimize the costs
 
Objectives
- Prepare knowledgeable, skilled, and attitudinally mature graduates in numbers with demand-based proportional balance of fields and disciplines so that the country shall become internationally competitive
 - Promote and enhance research focusing on technology transfer consistent with the country's priority needs
 - Expand higher education services that are free from any discrimination on grounds of race, religion, sex, politics and other similar grounds
 - Ensure that education and research promote freedom of expression based on reason and rational discourse
 - Design and provide community and consultancy services that shall cater to the developmental needs of the country
 - Ensure institutional autonomy with accountability
 - Ensure the participation of key stakeholders in the governance of institutions
 - Ensure the participation of all those concerned bodies in administration decision making, create and promote participation culture
 - Promote and uphold justice, fairness, and rule of law in institutional life
 - Promote democratic culture and uphold multicultural community life
 

