The university, open with modern and future opportunities, which ensures the competitiveness of the Yaroslavl region and the Uppervolzh region through the formation of human and scientific and technical capacity, participation in the balanced update of the traditional and development of post-industrial sectors of the economy, adaptation and transfer of the best global management and social practices.
The strategic goal of the university is to become an interregional center of scientific and technological competences and training of personnel, multidiscipliness and level of work of which are responsible both to the needs of the region's economy and competition at the national level.