The mission of The Honors College is to provide an intellectual community where outstanding students and dedicated teachers and scholars pursue intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and personal and professional enrichment marked by excellence in all engagements. It is guided by the FIU Value Statement, which espouses a commitment to: freedom of thought and expression; excellence in the pursuit, generation, dissemination, and application of knowledge; respect for the dignity of the individual; respect for the environment; honesty, integrity, and truth; diversity; and service excellence.

The aims of The Honors College are to:

1. Attract the "best and brightest" students from within and outside FIU and provide them a high quality trans-disciplinary educational experience.
   
2. Enable students to develop critical, integrative, and creative thinking skills and to make connections among domains of knowledge.
   
3. Facilitate engagement of students in applied and other research collaboration with the finest research faculty as learners and teachers in the scholarly community.
   
4. Provide mentoring and internship experiences to complement and enrich the knowledge acquired in the classroom and through research collaboration.
   
5. Offer scope for service learning engagement as a way to build bridges between domains of knowledge and service activity that enhances civic responsibility.
   
6. Foster a sense of community among students and faculty as citizens with special talents and responsibilities to self, the scholarly community, and society.