Mission & Vision

Asian University for Women (AUW) seeks to offer high quality education to young women drawn from diverse national, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. It will be open to young women of talent and commitment from all sections of society who want to work for a just and peaceful world. AUW sets as a goal to recruit at least half its student body from underprivileged groups across Asia, especially those displaced by war or political upheaval.

AUW seeks to graduate women who will be skilled and innovative professionals, service-oriented leaders in the businesses and communities in which they will work and live, and promoters of intercultural understanding and sustainable human and economic development in Asia and throughout the world.

We therefore make it our mission to:

  • Provide a vibrant and diverse residential learning community where highly talented women from many cultural and religious backgrounds can grow both intellectually and personally, treating diversity as something to be cherished and respected;
  • Create an awareness among students and graduates of their future as global citizens and of the importance of democratic values;
  • Create a student-focused learning environment where the humanities and natural and social sciences establish a broad base of inquiry; and
  • Focus student learning on the acquisition of intellectual abilities, reflective personal growth, leadership abilities, and a service-oriented outlook.

AUW seeks to graduate women bent on changing their society irrespective of their backgrounds, who aspire to be skilled and innovative professionals, service-oriented leaders in the businesses and communities in which they will work and live, and who aim to be promoters of intercultural understanding and sustainable human and economic development in Asia and throughout the world.