Duties and Functions

Universitas Sumatera Utara

USU’s Vision

To become a university with academic excellence as a benchmark for the advancement of knowledge that can compete on a global scale.

USU’s Mission

To conduct autonomy-based higher education that serves as a platform for the character and professionalism development of human resources, which is based on empowerment containing the spirit of democratization of education that acknowledges pluralism with an educational orientation that emphasizes the aspect of searching for alternative solutions to actual problems based on scientific, moral, and conscience studies;
To produce graduates who become agents of change as a force of modernization in the life of society at large, who have strong academic competence, relevance, and competitiveness, as well as who behave with ethical intellectualism; and
To implement, develop, and improve education, research culture, and community service activities in order to improve academic quality by developing superior science, which benefits the wider society in improving their way of life.

Duties of USU

Based on Government Regulation No. 16 of 2014 concerning USU Statute, the main duties of USU are:

Organizing autonomy-based higher education as a forum for character development and human resource professionalism based on empowering the spirit of democratization of education in pluralism including the development and improvement of education, research culture and community service programs so that they are beneficial for changing people's lives for the better.

Functions of USU

USU's function is to organize higher education in order to develop and improve:

The ability to form a character as a dignified nation in educating an innovative, responsive, creative, skilled, competitive, and cooperative nation through the implementation of Tridharma;
Science and technology by applying humanities values for the quality of life and the environment.