University Mandate

Objectives

As enshrined in its Charter (RA 1387), MSU was established in  Marawi City on September 1, 1961 to achieve the following objectives:

• Educate the youth of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan (MINSUPALA) by offering degree programs in various fields of learning;
• Support businesses and industries in the region by providing their manpower requirements; and
• Integrate the Muslims and the other cultural minorities into the mainstream of national life. 

12-Point Reform Agenda

1. Providing the basic minimum academic needs of all colleges in all campuses;
2. Sustaining academic excellence strengthening interventions;
3. Expanding remedial education;
4. Invigorating research and development;
5. Strengthening extension and community service;
6. Contributing significantly to peace building in Mindanao;
7. Diversifying external linkages;
8. Improving cost-efficiency and entrepreneurial financial administration;
9. Pursuing right growth paths and right programs the right way;
10. Enhancing campus security and protecting MSU lands;
11. Promoting inter-campus complementation; and
12. Reinventing the university bureaucracy.