Youngstown State University provides open access to high-quality education through a broad range of affordable certificate, associate, baccalaureate, and graduate programs. The University is dedicated to outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service and to forging connections among these three
interactive components of its mission; fostering student-faculty relationships that enrich teaching and learning, develop scholarship, and encourage public service; promoting diversity and an understanding of global perspectives; and advancing the intellectual, cultural, and economic life of the state and region.