As a higher education institution, the Faculty of Letters (Faculty of Humanities), Udayana University, possesses a Vision (a far-reaching forward-looking view) and a Mission (the duties and obligations to be performed to honor the institution) in order to implement and achieve the outlined objectives.

Vision

To become a Faculty of Humanities that possesses excellence and independence in the fields of education, research, and community service, with scholarly applications rooted in culture.

When further elaborated, the vision encompasses the values of being excellent, independent, and culture-oriented:

• Excellent means that Faculty of Humanities Udayana University consciously produces human resources with a competitive edge at regional, national, and international levels. Through this excellence, the university’s Principal Scientific Pattern is directed toward becoming a leading institution for undergraduate, master's, and doctoral education, specifically in education, research, and community service that exceeds the national higher education standards (Dikti).
• Independent means that all produced human resources possess a resilient personality, self-confidence, and high competitiveness, enabling them to develop independently. As an undergraduate educational institution, FIB Unud must maintain autonomy in various aspects, particularly in developing management and financing systems.
• Culture-oriented means that the human resources produced are capable of upholding the values of honesty and academic truth, possessing high sensitivity to the issues and dynamics of local cultural values, traditions, and societal practices. This is intended to support sustainable national cultural development and the ability to explore and develop local cultural values into the peaks of national and global culture. Faculty of Humanities Udayana University is expected to produce graduates who possess intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual intelligence.

Mission

The vision above is translated into four missions as follows.

1. To develop a learning system based on local wisdom, supported by communication and information technology, as well as an adequate quality assurance system to produce graduates who are excellent, independent, and culture-oriented, possessing high competence and integrity in accordance with the Indonesian National Qualifications Framework and the demands of local, national, and international communities.
2. To develop flagship research and scientific studies as a "spearhead" to generate high-quality new findings that benefit the development of science and technology, as well as community development, in an effort to realize FIB Unud as a research faculty in accordance with the National Standards for Higher Education.
3. To foster and develop, both quantitatively and qualitatively, scientific studies in the form of books and articles for national, accredited national, and international journals.
4. To develop Faculty of Humanities Udayana University as a flagship program to enhance the university's credibility in the eyes of the public through prominent community service programs.