The NUOL is to be the center of excellence in higher education, research and cultural preservation and contribute to capacity building, to the strengthening of human resources through fostering intellectual vitality, promoting knowledge and skills, positive attitudes, loyalty, dignity, good physical and mental health. One of the aims is to make out of the university’s graduates most-sought for manpower by the country’s and, at large, the region’s most demanding employers and to enable them to 11 become accomplished professionals.

The NUOL’s mission is to meet Laos’ development in a suitable, efficient and equitable manner. It can be categorized as follows:

• to create and provide training and thus contribute to the development of the country’s human resources. Students are to acquire knowledge and to receive training so as to become academicians, administrators or researchers equipped with high knowledge, skills, expertise, and an overall ability to innovate as well as a solid moral background;
• to conduct and promote, alongside regular curriculum, research so as to buttress the country’s economic and social development;
• to disseminate research findings and provide academic and technical services to society in an efficient way;
• to preserve and expand the arts, culture and traditions of our multiethnic nation, while acknowledging and respecting world culture.