The vision of the Malawi Polytechnic is to be a center of excellence in the provision of scientific and technological education and training for sustainable development.

The Malawi Polytechnic intends to advance knowledge and to promote wisdom and understanding by engaging in teaching, research and by making provision for dissemination/promotion and preservation of learning; by engaging in such University Education and Research as is responsive to the needs of Malawi and Africa and by offering, within limits of its resources, to persons suitably qualified academically and who, in the opinion of the Council, are able and offered by University, an education of high university standard in Science & Technology, Engineering and Commerce.