• Ahlia University (AU) is a coeducational institute of higher education, formed on the credit system. It is an autonomous University, independently chartered and founded by the private sector.

• AU aspires to be a center of excellence in Science, Technology, and Business education, which acts as an effective agent of change and a model for other institutes to emulate.

• AU shall strive to attract the best possible talent for its faculty and provide them necessary facilities and an enabling environment.

• AU will admit students solely on the basis of their academic qualifications regardless of race, color, gender, religion, sect, disabilities, age or national origin. The creation of a multicultural, coeducational, international academic community, is both a mean and an end in the mission of the University.

• AU will provide students with a rich and varied campus life, that fosters their personal growth and supports their transition to responsible adulthood in a rapidly changing world.

• AU will integrate liberal studies and professional education to give its students both breadth and specialization.

• AU is committed to produce graduates who distinguish themselves by their professional competence, their humanistic outlook and ethnical rectitude, their pragmatic approach to problem solving and their organizational and managerial skills. Given these attributes, they should be able to respond adequately to the needs and problems of Bahrain and the GCC countries and to be the vanguard of their transformation.