IOU Mission

The mission of iou.edu.so is to prepare broadly educated, technologically proficient, and highly productive citizens to attain meaningful careers, in-order to enjoy enriched lives, and to make contributions to a security, growth and rebuilding this nation through education.

IOU Vision

The iou.edu.so aspires to become a regional institution of first choice recognized for providing critical opportunities for student success; acknowledged as a primary and engaged community resource; and valued as a University where there are faculty, students, and professional staff active in research, creative work, and other scholarly activity and play a great role in both short and long term social and economic developments in the nation.