Diego Portales University seeks to further consolidate its well-known public-oriented approach by:
- Diversifying professional elites through quality education (academic and professional), that ensures a successful insertion and early progression in the workforce, regardless of the student’s socioeconomic background.
- Producing public goods, mainly research, contributing not only to a particular discipline but also to issues of national interest.
- Developing academic programs that guarantee the students’ critical independence and public use of reason and discipline.
- Providing a dual system of governance that includes financial and patrimonial supervision by an external third party, incorporating the deliberative participation of scholars and students in the University’s intellectual stewardship.
- Offering a management style open to active accountability and transparency.
- Promoting the existence of a diverse student body.
- Maintaining a community outreach program that prevents intellectual isolation by addressing issues emerging from the national and international contexts of which UDP is a part.
- Connecting with selective international networks and higher education institutions that contribute to the quality of the academic project.
