The university has a broad mission of teaching and research committed to collaboration across traditional subject and faculty boundaries. The university wishes to provide students with education of the highest quality, actively promoting a diversity by creating a meeting place for people of different experience, ways of thinking and cultural backgrounds. Close collaboration with regional trade and industry, as well as public institutions, are now expanding to international links and co-operation with other institutions worldwide.

Research has a multidisciplinary approach and is performed on a project-basis. The organisation of the University by "Schools" instead of the more common division by faculties reflects the multidisciplinary intention. Co-operation between the various "Schools" enhances the multidisciplinary research culture, which is carefully integrated into the undergraduate instructional programs. This assures course content to be current and with the latest research findings.

Internationalisation is an essential issue for our university. To maintain a high standard in teaching and research Malmö University makes use of international interaction and promotes the mobility of students, teachers and researchers. The university strives to ensure favourable conditions for teachers and researchers to obtain as well as foster international co-operation with universities worldwide. The students will be offered good possibilities to spend part of their studies at a foreign university. To ensure also the non-mobile students an international education, Malmö University will provide the courses and programmes of study with contents that will reflect the many different aspects of international relations as well as provide a European and global dimension.