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Vision and Mission

OUR VISION

Rooted in and inspired by the Ignatian charism of forming men and women for others, St. Xavier's University, Kolkata, as a Centre of Excellence, strives to promote a society based on love, freedom, liberty, justice, equality and fraternity.

OUR MISSION

To set an international standard for Arts, Science, Commerce, Management education contemporary and relevant to the 21st century;
To provide all students of St. Xavier's University a unique and exceptional education that will be a transforming experience intellectually, culturally, socially and personally;
To excel in all areas of teaching-learning, research, outreach and consultancy;
To contribute to the creation of knowledge and to search for the meaning of life;
To bridge the rural-urban divide, taking the benefits of education to the poor and the marginalized, aiming at their empowerment;
To ensure access to and equity in higher educational opportunity to all deserving and meritorious students with a preferential option for the poor and marginalized, irrespective of caste and creed;
To inspire and challenge all segments of the University to raise the realm of good from great to greater, through continuous quality assessment;
To offer subjects for competence building, and to motivate/animate a work force imbued with human values;
To become a Centre of culture and to consciously promote communal harmony and cultural integration so as to create an atmosphere of dialogue in the campus;
To promote academic exchange and academia-industry interfacing, making use of the latest technology;
To develop application-oriented courses, with the mandatory view on values, to produce holistic development of persons;
To form young men and women of competence, commitment, conscience and compassion;
To contribute to the well-being of the nation without counting the cost; in the spirit of NIHIL ULTRA (Nothing Beyond), the motto of St. Xavier's University, Kolkata.

VALUE FRAMEWORK TO ACCOMPLISH OUR MISSION

Fostering passionate pursuit for academic and intellectual excellence;
Promoting social concern leading to action;
Cultivating uncompromising commitment towards enhancing the quality of life both at the organizational and societal level;
Instilling in students integrity, perseverance and transparency;
Facilitating creativity and innovativeness in all endeavours;
Enabling leadership to become agents of social change and shape a better future.
Encouraging discipline, teamwork and the culture of collaboration;
Providing education with a human face and furthering the cause of human virtues;

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