Mission
UT's focus is on educating people who for various reasons including lack of funding, rural isolation and full-time employment, do not have opportunity to attend conventional face-to-face higher education institutions.
The University's mission is:
- to expand the opportunity for quality higher education through the distance education system;
- to produce competent academicians and professionals who are able to compete globally;
- to increase participation in continuing education in order to create a knowledge-based society;
- to increase the quality and quantity of research and development in the distance education system, especially in distance higher education;
- to innovatively and continuously disseminate and share information on distance education especially on distance higher education;
- to strengthen national unity and integrity through the broad and equal provision of higher education;
- to increase cross-cultural understanding and networking through local, national and global partnerships;
- to produce academic products in distance higher education as well as in other fields of knowledge.
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