Concordia University’s Core Values and Mission Statement express our enduring purpose and identify: our very reason for existence as a place of Lutheran Christian higher education. All the schools’ programs and initiatives of the University are guided by shared fidelity to the central purpose. We provide access to the highest values of higher education experience. As a result, Concordia students discover and develop their vocations. Rigorous assessment of our academic offerings, university services, delivery systems and market organizational performance result in continuous improvement of the Concordia experience which enables our students to pursue and persist in their chosen career.