Our Mission

The University of Lethbridge is a comprehensive university

founded on the principles of liberal education. The U of L emphasizes inspiring teaching, a personalized and interactive learning environment, and student engagement in learning, creative activities, and research.

We provide undergraduate and graduate programs in education, fine arts, health sciences, and social sciences, leading to academic degrees at the Bachelor, Masters, and Doctoral levels. We offer targeted programming at our campuses in Calgary and through distance delivery. The University collaborates with FNMI peoples to develop programs that are relevant and accessible to them.

The University of Lethbridge fosters an environment that meets the educational and personal needs of students through excellent teaching, exposure to research, interaction with professors and instructors, academic advising, counseling, and cultural, recreational and extracurricular programs. We value and support many approaches to teaching and learning, and strive to be a leader in using teaching tools, techniques, and technologies to facilitate, ameliorate, and refine the educational experience.

We establish and sustain facilities for pursuing original research and creative activities, and conduct research in all disciplines, developing and sustaining centres of research excellence in areas where we have special expertise or that have particular relevance to the region.

We build mutually supportive relationships and partnerships with governments, institutions, communities, organizations, and individuals, to evolve and improve the value of the University to the region, the province, the country and the world.

About UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE

The University of Lethbridge is a Board-governed institution functioning under the Post Secondary Learning Act as a member of the system of Alberta universities. It offers instructional programs at the Bachelor's level in the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences, and mathematics within its Faculty of Education, Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Management, and Nursing. At the graduate level, The University of Lethbridge offers a master of Education (MEd), Master of Arts (MA), Master of Science (MSc) and a special case Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). It stimulates and supports basic research and scholarly activity in all disciplines in which it gives instruction, and conducts certain lines of applied research of special relevance to the region or to the province.