Objectives:- The primary objectives of the University, as stipulated in its Act, are to train manpower for the developmental needs of the Southern Sudan and similar regions in the country. It envisages the development of this skilled manpower to seek and to determine rational methods of exploitation of the vast natural resources of the country for development .The objective takes into account the building up of social life within the national goals of economic development ,forging national integration and promoting human and international understanding.

Policy:- The University of Juba is the first of the emerging new national universities, which are geared to take into account regional peculiarities in their operation and philosophy of education. Like the other institutions of higher learning in the country, it is governed by the general policies and regulations of the National Council for Higher Education and is similarly funded by the Higher Education Grants Committee. Likewise, its student admission programme falls into line with the general policies of the National Admission Board. However, its admission programme takes into account the special needs of the Southern Sudan