Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University reflects the uniqueness of the traditional landgrant institution combining teaching, research, service, liberal arts, and vocational fields. The University offers baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral level degrees that are compatible with the times to all qualified and capable individuals who are interested in further developing their technical, scientific, professional, and scholastic skills and competencies. The University operates in the three-fold function of teaching, research, extension and other public service.

Alabama A&M University, a center of excellence, provides an educational environment for the emergence of scholars, scientists, leaders, critical thinkers, and other contributors to a global society. In cooperation with business, industry, governmental agencies, and other private and community-based institutions, Alabama A&M University provides a laboratory where theory is put into practice globally, and is committed to:

1. Excellence in education and the creation of a scholarly environment in which inquiring and discriminating minds may be nourished;

2. Education of students for effective participation in local, state, regional, national, and international societies;

3. Search for new knowledge through research and its applications;

4. Provision of a comprehensive outreach program designed to meet the changing needs of the larger community;

5. Programs necessary to address adequately the major needs and problems of capable students who have experienced limited access to education; and

6. Integration of state–of-the-art technology into all aspects of University functions. In cooperation with businesses, industry, governmental agencies, and other private and community-based institutions, Alabama A&M University provides a laboratory where theory is put into practice in a productive environment.

VISION
Alabama A&M University will continue its quest to be recognized globally as a world-class, land-grant, comprehensive university with a focus on:
- Expanding doctoral offerings in education, science and engineering;
- Increasing research, scholarly publications and other scholarly activities;
- Enhancing the University’s academic environment;
- Expanding extension/outreach/public service activities; and,
- Creating and implementing a national model for student retention/graduation with emphasis on students with limited educational access.

CORE VALUES
Six core values serve as the philosophical underpinning for the University. They provide the foundation for molding and integrating activities of faculty, staff and students in their quest to implement and access programs of instruction, research and extension/outreach. The core values stress inclusiveness, scholarship, diversity, leadership, and service.

Leadership – The University will continue to promote a service oriented leadership through involvement in internal University governance by faculty, staff and students; engagement in public policy debates, and assumption of leadership roles by students, faculty and staff.

Engagement – The University through its faculty, staff, and students will be involved in meeting the needs of the larger community with special emphasis on serving economically, culturally, and educationally depressed constituencies, thereby ensuring the University’s unmitigated engagement with and commitment to all segments of the community.

Access – The University will continue to serve as a beacon for capable students, including those who have had limited access to education and students with disabilities. Access will continue to be a core value that guides the University’s mission.

Diversity – The University will continue to view enhancing its diversity as an all-encompassing effort that nurtures and respects a variety of ideas, cultures, ethnicities, programs, processes, and procedures.

Scholarship – The University will provide an environment focused on excellence in student scholarship, and through its faculty and staff, the creation of new knowledge and means of expression through research and the creative arts.

Integrity- The University will maintain high ethical and moral standards in its administrative and academic.