VISION

• To develop the Central University of Odisha as an avant-grade premier University of the new millennium with a world-ethos-driven higher education agenda.
• To develop an University which strike a balance between teaching and scholarship and commitment to addressing society's educational, economic, and cultural challenges.
• To develop the University with research as its flagship identity to foster, nurture and inculcate a research culture.
• To collaborate/ forge academic alliance/partnership with flagship research institutes, universities and industries in India and abroad as envisaged in the UNESCO document.
• To create skilled workforce which can erase the invariable divide between the rural and urban needs, between the needs of the home and overseas?
• To develop a knowledge base that brings a holistic balance between indigenous needs and that of global needs.

MISSION

• Provide quality education for all, so that we may fortify the backbone of the nation.
• Disseminate 'inclusive education' to reach the unreached.
• Advocate a wholesome symbiosis of the indigenous and the global scene.
• Uphold a strongly grounded holistic worldview of the higher education.
• Create a niche of its own.