Our Mission

The mission of Rohilkhand University is to:

• Promote participation in Higher Education, which it regards as a democratic entitlement.
• Strive for excellence in learning, teaching and research.
• Realize the creative potential and fire the imagination of all its members.
• Equip its students to make effective contributions to society and the economy.

Our Vision

The University of the New Millennium will occupy a key role in the production of wealth of all kinds – social, cultural and economic. It will be the pivotal institution in both the learning society and the knowledge economy.

The University faces new challenges – from rival knowledge institutions that do not subscribe to its liberal traditions and its commitment to critical learning, and from those who resist too close an engagement with society and the economy.

It also has new opportunities:

• to develop the radical ideas and expert knowledge on which future society will depend while continuing to celebrate a liberal academic culture
• to establish a democratic entitlement to lifelong participation in higher education while safeguarding high standards in teaching and research

The University is both the promoter of innovation and the protector of tradition. In an increasingly uncertain and volatile world it is both:

• a dynamic change-agent creating new knowledge, moulding new skills and shaping new social identities
• an institution of stability, consolidation and discrimination

The University, as a public institution, is confronted by new accounts of the public good and, as an autonomous institution, must engage in exciting new markets for higher education. It is against this background that Rohilkhand University has developed its vision for the twenty-first century:

• Rohilkhand University is a comprehensive university – in its range of teaching and research programmes, in the diversity of its student population and in the variety of its engagements with society, culture and the economy.

• Rohilkhand University is a university that defines its mission in terms of future possibilities rather than past roles, and transcends the historical hierarchies.
• Rohilkhand University is a "knowledge" institution and a learning organisation. It recognises the key role knowledge will play in social and economic development in the new millennium while celebrating its traditional, and enduring, role in creating and sustaining human culture.

A learning culture

Rohilkhand University seeks to establish a learning culture in which teaching and research of the highest quality are able to flourish equally. It aims to combine respect for traditional academic values with enthusiasm for novelty and innovation in higher education.

It remains committed to offering a comprehensive range of teaching and research programmes, to reflect the universality of knowledge and the vital connections between academic disciplines. But it is also committed to:

• Coherence, in its commitment to developing fundamental intellectual skills in all its students.
• Maintaining the highest possible academic standards.
• Offering all students a consistent and a rewarding, experience.

It recognises no contradiction between the need for critical learning and the demands of professional formation. It is as committed to providing its students with competences for employability as to developing the intellectual, expressive and social skills required to take full advantage of all their future life-chances.

Students first

Rohilkhand University puts students at the heart of its enterprise. It is committed to offering them the maximum degree of choice of academic programmes consistent with the need to maintain a rigorous and disciplined approach to higher education, partly through the development of a flexible but coherent modular system.

It is also determined to provide students with a satisfying experience outside the classroom by providing a comprehensive range of other services and support and by encouraging the development of a strong students' union.

The University in the world

Rohilkhand University celebrates the universality of knowledge, and of the human condition, through its teaching and research. It promotes understanding among nations by welcoming international students and by aspiring to offer all its students a more international curriculum.

It recognizes its responsibility to prepare its students for global careers in the twenty-first century. It is committed to strengthening, and extending, its existing collaborative links with higher education institutions and other organizations outside the India, especially in Asia and in the developing world.