People are our main focus – this applies equally to students, instructors, auditors and visitors. However, students and their goals, questions, and demands stand at the center of academic life – regardless of their field of study, their home country or their cultural background.

It is our mission to educate students and to accompany them in their artistic, educational, and personal growth, to respect every student's individuality, to treat men and women as equals, to make every student feel welcome and accepted, to bring together various cultures and art forms, and to establish and support an academic community with a high degree of solidarity, democracy, and humanity.

These values are requirements for the University's educational mission and the foundation of an atmosphere in which art, instruction, and research can flourish.