UB's Strategic Goals
The University at Buffalo's strategic goals align with its tripartite mission of educational excellence, research impact and engagement in the communities we serve.
Broadly speaking, these goals are to:
Achieve greater societal impact locally and globally
- Enhance faculty productivity and impact through increased research and scholarly funding and excellence.
- Encourage collaborations across the disciplines to amplify faculty strengths, create synergies and pursue innovation.
- Provide state-of-the-art research environments.
- Enhance research, teaching, and mentoring support structures to ensure faculty success.
Provide students with transformative, innovative and research-grounded educational experiences
- Elevate the academic profile of undergraduate, graduate and professional students; further improve undergraduate 4-year and 6-year graduation rates.
- Enhance academic and career support structures to ensure student success.
- Provide state-of-the-art educational environments.
- Expand impact as a recognized leader in international education.
- Prepare students to live and lead in a global world.
Promote a university-wide culture of equity and inclusion
- Integrate inclusivity into all aspects of the university.
- Further enhance faculty and student diversity through focused hiring and enrollment strategies.
- Implement best practices with regard to recruitment and retention of faculty, students and staff.
Deepen engagement in the regional community
- Further partnerships with the local community to enrich the student experience and to contribute to the social, cultural and economic vitality of Western New York.
- Become a national destination for clinical care and medical/health sciences education.
- Improve health care outcomes for the WNY region.