VISION: To be a centre of excellence in higher education for sustainable development of Malawi and the region.

Since its establishment, the University of Malawi has been instrumental in training and developing a reliable human resource that has gone to service various sectors of society in the country and the region. The recent boom of universities in the country has partly been possible because personnel to run such universities is readily available, a huge percentage of which is University of Malawi trained. Graduates from the University of Malawi have gone to excel in other university in the region and beyond as graduate students as well as faculty.