Vision
To be one of Africa’s top five defense universities in terms of education, training and research by 2025.
Mission
Elevating the performance of the lawyer’s mission: providing education and training, learning, counseling and community services.
Value
Ethiopian Defense University works to inculcate the following values:
1 Prioritizing the people and the country: The university focuses on producing professionals who will fulfill their mission by giving priority to the country and the people.
2 A complete personality: the university in knowledge; It focuses on producing professionals who are rich in skills and attitudes, complete with military character and readiness.
3 Democratic way of thinking: The university should freely generate and express ideas; respecting the opinions of others; It serves as a center for unrestricted academic debate and discussion.
4 Excellence: The university’s research and teaching activities are focused on meeting national and international high standards and moving to a higher level.
5 Responsibility and Accountability:- Every member of the university discharges his duty by making decisions and taking actions; It ensures accountability for the decisions and actions taken.
6. Responsibility and Accountability:- Every member of the university discharges his duty by making decisions and taking actions; It ensures accountability for the decisions and actions taken.
Innovation: Apart from modification, automation and adaptation of technology that can solve the problems of defense and the country, the university works as a center for generating and transferring new innovations and knowledge.
7. Teamwork: The University encourages bringing individual strengths together to work towards a common goal.
Respecting Diversity: The University by Race; In religion. It implements a work system that does not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity and gender, is inclusive and creates equal opportunities for all.