The University Credo

1. We believe:
   • that education is a lifelong process, and its focal point is and should always be the individual person;
   • that the primary purpose of education is the integral formation of the human person, the fullest development of everything that is human in the individual;
   • that it is an essential part of the mission of a school to help and complement the family in the exercise of its educational rights and duties;
   • that a university must be ever attentive and responsive to the real needs of the community that sustains it to significantly contribute to human progress, and do everything it can to uplift the moral, cultural and material level of the country and the region in which it operates; and
   • that a university fulfills its role best when it forms individuals who are professionally competent, creative and enterprising, zealous for the common good, and capable of making free and morally upright choices, and who can thus act as positive agents of change in service to society.
2. We, who form part of the University of Asia and the Pacific, therefore, dedicate and commit ourselves to:
   • the highest standards of professional excellence in our academic, scientific and cultural endeavors;
   • the inculcation of sound and time-tested human and social values and attitudes in people, beginning with those we work and live with and reaching out especially to those in most need of help in society;
   • the creation within the University of an atmosphere of academic serenity conducive not only to disciplined and diligent study, high-level research, and the responsible use of scientific inquiry, but also to mutual respect, openness, understanding, and friendship, without discrimination of any kind; and
   • above all, the arduous but most spiritually rewarding pursuit of wisdom, the synthesis of love of God and knowledge, faith and reason, culture and life.

Mission Statement

University of Asia and the Pacific is an academic community where the pursuit and spread of truth are undertaken according to the highest intellectual and professional standards. It shall remain faithful to these foundational aims:

• To pursue and promote world-class research, an interdisciplinary synthesis of humanistic, professional, scientific, and technical knowledge, inspired by a Christian view of man and sense of life.
• To promote, in an atmosphere of freedom, the integral development of all members of the university community so that they may work with good will, competence, and team spirit.
• To form committed professionals and encourage them to serve with personal initiative and civic responsibility the community in which they work, thereby helping build just and harmonious social structures.
• To create and spread a culture that strengthens the dignity of the human person and the unity of the family, and that promotes understanding and cooperation among persons of all races, beliefs, and social conditions.

To achieve these aims, the University of Asia and the Pacific shall:

• Seek to reach a level of excellence in its research and teaching programs that will earn for the university a place among the most prestigious academic institutions in the Asia-Pacific region.
• Adopt advanced research and teaching techniques so as to become a source of innovative forms of learning, as well as contribute to a better balance between the cost and quality of research, communication, and education.
• Adapt its teaching programs, founded upon basic research and the study of the humanities, to the actual needs of a society undergoing progressive change and of a wide region promoting international cooperation.
• Seek, while working closely with other Philippine institutions, wider regional and international recognition so that it can be present in intellectual fora and policy dialogues.
• Strengthen and broaden the avenues for cooperation so that it can effectively contribute to social development and obtain from various sectors of society the necessary support to carry out its extension work.
• Organize itself in a manner conducive to internal efficiency and effective coordination, while keeping enough flexibility, so as to enable all members of the university community to contribute freely and responsibly to the fulfillment of their common tasks.
• Strive to attain, as a necessary condition for its autonomous development, a level of economic self-sufficiency that will allow the university to firmly establish itself as a center of academic excellence, to initiate projects, and to admit well-qualified students from underprivileged sectors of society.

The University Hymn