Pars University of Art and Architecture advances learning through research and teaching of unsurpassed quality, with an emphasis on undergraduate and education that is distinctive among the Iran’s great universities, and with a pervasive commitment to serve the nation and the world.

The University’s defining characteristics and aspirations include:

• a focus on the arts and humanities, and engineering, with a perfect excellence across all of its departments;

• a commitment to innovation and the discovery of new knowledge and new ideas, coupled with a commitment to preserve and transmit the intellectual, artistic, and cultural heritage of the past;

• a faculty of engaged scholars who are involved with and accessible to students and devoted to the thorough integration of teaching and research;

• a focus on undergraduate education that is unique for a high class research university, with a program of liberal arts that simultaneously prepares students for meaningful lives and careers, broadens their outlooks, and helps form their characters and values;

• a graduate school that is unusual in its emphasis on postgraduate education, while also offering high quality masters programs in selected areas;

• a human scale that nurtures a strong sense of community, invites high levels of engagement, and fosters personal communication;

• exceptional student aid programs at the undergraduate and graduate level that ensure Pars is affordable to all;

• a commitment to welcome, support, and engage students, faculty, and staff with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, and to encourage all members of the University community to learn from the robust expression of diverse perspectives;
• a commitment to prepare students for lives of service, civic engagement, and ethical leadership; and an intensely engaged and generously supportive alumni community.