Universidad de Piura is a corporate apostolic undertaking of Opus Dei, a Personal Prelature of the Catholic Church. The Prelature's aim is to promote the search for sanctity through professional work and ordinary life. For this reason, in addition to providing students with first-quality education, the University is devoted to the promotion of Catholic faith and Christian values in a climate of total respect for the students' liberty.
In exerting its mission, the University has secured a solid prestige for its rigurous academic system and high level of demand, for its trustworthiness and institutional quality.
The following aspects are part of its mission:
- To favour the integral education of students.
- To promote and divulge scientific investigation in all the fields of human knowledge; making the search for truth the fundamental reason of all intellectual activity.
- To provide a quality educational training, which harmonises specialisation with a holistic perspective and awareness of the surrounding reality.
- To promote social sensibility in order to maintain a permanent attention to the specific problems affecting men and society, orienting research and study towards the solution of such problems.
