The UB College of Arts and Sciences aims to: 

1. produce competent graduates in their chosen field of specification;
2. develop truth-seeking and finely attuned individuals in their sphere of discipline;
3. equip students with the capability to maintain academic integrity and honesty, intellectual humility, and genuine dialogue with other disciplines;
4. train students to be open and independent-minded;
5. display values-oriented and morally upright qualities;
6. hone students into dynamic, responsible, and service-oriented leaders and
7. become proactive agents of sociocultural transformation.