Oklahoma City University embraces the United Methodist tradition of scholarship and service and welcomes all faiths in a culturally rich community that is dedicated to student welfare and success. Men and women pursue academic excellence through a rigorous curriculum that focuses on students’ intellectual, moral, and spiritual development to prepare them to become effective leaders in service to their communities.

The life of Oklahoma City University is guided by the following concepts:

• The total University environment educated, and should seek to do so;
• Personal involvement is essential to learning;
• A religious dimension in human experience is inescapable and that students be encouraged to be conscious of the value of humane and ethical behavior; and
• That a broad base of knowledge provides a basis for integrative thinking and creative solutions to complex issues.

The University is committed to the following purposes:

• To seek, advance and transmit truth as its primary responsibility.
• To cultivated ethical and aesthetic sensitivity, enhance value judgment, stress the moral use of knowledge and skills, and nurture the unity of competence and conscience.
• To stress the importance of the spiritual as well as the intellectual and physical development of the student.
• To provide leadership for an enhancement of the cultural experience in Oklahoma City and beyond.
• To become a center of excellence in global studies and to provide leadership in education programming in the world community.
• To encourage members of the Oklahoma City University community to avail themselves of the continuing resources in the Judeo-Christian traditions and religious life.

Oklahoma City University is committed to the fulfillment of these purposes by providing:

• Undergraduate, graduate and professional academic programs that emphasize, examine and encourage intellectual, religious and aesthetic experiences and growth;
• Lifelong learning programs for personal enrichment, knowledge and special skills, enabling all individuals to continue in productive and creative lives; and
• A range of activities, which support and enhance the University's academic programs