Wollega University aspires to be a center of excellence in East Africa in producing competent citizens and high-level professionals and researchers that could play a critical leadership role, generate new knowledge and adapt relevant knowledge to national development.

Mission of Wollega University is to achieve excellence in producing competent professionals in varies disciplines and producing competent professionals in varies disciplines and be a model in research and consultancy service through practical based, life long learning, and promote democratic culture to contribute to the national development of the country.

Goals

• To offer a rich array of challenging academic programs.
• To provide intellectual, cultural, social and physical activities that supports the development of the individual.
• To provide lifelong learning opportunities to the people of Ethiopia.
• To obtain appropriate human, financial, informational, and physical resources and to manage them in a fair, efficient, and accountable manner.
• To be accessible on an equitable basis to qualified Ethiopians and, where possible, to others.
• To collaborate with other post-secondary educational institutions and research institutes.
• To build mutually beneficial relationships with other public and private organizations.
• To communicate with its graduates and the local community, Ethiopian people and to be open and receptive to their ideas.
• To advance employment and education equity through its policies and practices, and, in particular, to address the needs of disadvantaged people, persons with disabilities, and women.
• To ensure that our activities are consistent with environmental responsibility, and to include a global perspective