The mission of PUP in the 21 century is to provide the highest quality of comprehensive and global education and community services accessible to all students, Filipinos and foreigners alike.
It shall offer high quality undergraduate and graduate programs that are responsive to the changing needs of the students to enable them to lead productive and meaningful lives.
PUP shall maintain its traditional mission based on its founding philosophy and at the same time propose additional changes that will greatly enhnace the realization of this mission in the context of a global society. Therefore, on the strength of the PUP philosophy, the University commits itself to:
1. democratize access to educational opportunities.
2. promote science and technology conciousness and develop relevant expertise and competence among all members of the academic stressing their importance in building a truly independent and sovereign Phillipines.
3. emphasize the unrestrained and unremitting search for truth and its defense, as well as the advancement of moral and spiritual values;
4. promote awareness of our beneficial and relevant cultural heritage;
5. develop in the students and faculty the values of self-discipline, love of country and social consciousness and the need to defend human rights.
