Mission Statement

Ouachita Baptist University is a church-related, liberal arts university whose aims are to meet the educational needs of students and to prepare them for places of leadership and service.   To achieve these aims, Ouachita Baptist University seeks to combine the love of God with the love of learning.  The University provides the students the opportunity to experience growth in Christian ideals and character, to develop their intellectual and physical abilities, to think critically and creatively, to mature in their understanding and appreciation of their world, to communicate effectively and to accept their obligation to be of service to God and mankind.  This mission has been found to be consistent with faithful stewardship to the parent body, the Arkansas Baptist State Convention.

• We affirm that life is lived most abundantly when it is lived in response to the love of God through Jesus Christ.
• We affirm that we need to know about all  areas of knowledge and that such breadth of learning should be both personal and vocational.
• We affirm that good teaching requires interaction between student and teacher and that learning is most effective where there are both challenge and encouragement.
• We affirm that education involves the whole person and that growth is intellectual, physical, spiritual and social. (Luke 2:52: "And Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and Man.")