Haigazian university is a liberal arts institution of higher learning which operates on the american model of higher education using english as the language of instruction. Its purposes is to provide quality education in a christian environment where academic freedom and the search and dissemination of truth are predominant. It seeks to prepare students both for leadership positions and as professionals to serve in the armenian and NON-armenian lebanese communities. The ethnic and geographic identity of the university demands the preservation and promotion of its armenian and middle eastern heritage within the global context. Haigazian university is an instrumentality of the witness of the armenian evangelical church. Haigazian university is CO-educational and open to academically qualified students regardless of race, nationality or creed.