The University of Southern Somalia (USS) is an independent institution of higher learning. The mission of the university is to advance learning and develop knowledge that responds to the social and economic realities of Southern Somalia and to educate the next generation of Somalis without regard to social background, social status, or region of origin. The University of Southern Somalia is commit
ted to promoting diversity in its student body, faculty, and curriculum by actively encouraging multiple voices, perspectives, and ideas as opposed to the dominance of a single perspective, faction, or particular cultural or historical view point. By pursuing this mission with vision and integrity, the university seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and elicit the best efforts of all who are associated with it; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that it undertakes.
