Simpson is a Christian university of liberal arts offering both biblical and professional studies. The following statement serves as our guide in determining programs and activities.

"Simpson University is a Christ-centered educational community, developing men and women for a lifetime of Spirit-led intellectual, spiritual, and social growth, strengthening each to fulfill God's call to be an agent of transformation of life in all its fullness."

Within the framework of its mission, Simpson University shall constantly strive to fulfill the following objectives:

1. To cultivate in each student an awareness of God and His will, and a complete dedication to the Lordship of JesusChrist.

2. To offer the student a broad education designed to develop the academic, social, physical and spiritual life.

3. To foster intellectual growth; to develop lifelong habits of self-directed study through a program of scholarship that seeks to examine the world of knowledge.

4. To crystallize a value system and an authority system as they relate to the privileges and responsibilities of contemporary life in a global context.

5. To help the student grow in appreciation of and sensitivity to the arts and in development of balance and good taste in lifestyle.

6. To provide an environment within which life-directing vocational decisions can be made which honor God and bring fulfillment to the learner.

7. To equip our graduates with the knowledge and skills to achieve fulfillment in professional and vocational life callings.

8. To develop in each student through the entire curricular and co-curricular programming, a fervent, God-conscious Christian experience kindled with the flame of lifestyle evangelism and missionary passion.