The mission of the University of Connecticut is to be a great state university. This means providing education of a quality equal to that offered by the best public universities in the nation.

St. Basil College, a division of the Ukrainian Catholic Seminary of Stamford, is a center of learning and formation. The academic program of the college corresponds to the goals of a four-year liberal arts college. It gives the student an awareness of traditional and contemporary thought in the liberal arts based on a philosophical and pre-theological core curriculum.