PHILOSOPHY AND MISSION:

Philosophy: BTU is an institution of higher learning adhering to the philosophy of lifelong education by producing social leaders with knowledge, wisdom, and morality who can apply sciences and technology for development to become an innovative educational institution of high standards based on the sufficiency economy philosophy.

MISSION: Cultivating Man with Wisdom and Morality.

VISION, COMMITMENTS AND GOALS:

VISIONS:

1. To become an experience-based university aiming at producing graduates with knowledge, experiences, and hands-on professionals;

2. To develop the graduates as “perfect men” of highly moral, spiritual, academic, well around, and modern;

3. To develop appropriate environment, systems, and mechanisms to cultivate professional graduates for professional organizations;

4. To be a community of scholars and become a “Harvard of the East and Oxford of the Orient.”

COMMITMENTS:

Bangkokthonburi University is mandated to carry out the following commitments:

1. To produce graduates with competencies, morality, and spirits in professional areas needed by the country;

2. To conduct research and create innovations in various professional disciplines for national and international development;

3. To provide public services in the areas BTU has readiness and expertise;

4.  To maintain and preserve arts and cultural heritages and develop high-quality education standards.

GOALS:

Bangkokthonburi University was established to educate high-quality graduates to serve national economic, social, and democracy based on national and international standards with the following purposes;

1. To produce knowledgeable persons of both theories and practices with high moral and ethical values and well-versed in conducting research works and providing educational services to the community in regional and local areas;

2. To produce graduates with full awareness and loyalty to the nation, religion, and monarchy;

3. To produce graduates with arts and culturally conservative minds to unearth, rediscovery, maintain, preserve, develop, and disseminate the 8,000 years of unique and hidden Thai arts and cultures as an origin and cradle of world civilizations;

4.  To produce graduates with high potentiality in providing social services and enhancing the quality of life through modern educational, information, and communication technology based on borderless and ubiquitous educational paradigms;

5. To produce graduates with full awareness of the duties and rights of citizens in the democratic system with the monarchy as head of the state for the benefit of the Thai and world citizens as a whole;

6. To help unburden the public sector in providing the educational management of higher education through close collaboration with the Ministry of Education to produce high-quality and potential human resources for Thailand.