Webster University is an independent, comprehensive, nondenominational, multicampus, international university with undergraduate and graduate programs in various disciplines including the liberal arts, the fine and performing arts, teacher education, communications, and business.

Webster University combines the cultural and intellectual legacies of the past with a pragmatic concern for meeting the challenges of the present and the future.

In doing so, Webster University:

• creates a student-centered environment accessible to individuals of diverse ages, cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds;
• sustains a personalized approach to education through small classes and close relationships among faculty and students;
• develops educational programs that join theory and practice and instill in students the spirit of systematic inquiry;
• encourages creativity, scholarship, and individual enterprise in its students and faculty;
• promotes international perspectives in the curriculum and among students and faculty;
• encourages in its students a critical cast of mind, a respect for diversity, and an understanding of their own and others' values;
• fosters in its students a lifelong desire to learn and a commitment to contribute actively to their communities and the world;
• educates diverse populations locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally;
• strengthens the communities it serves through support of civic, cultural, corporate, and educational organizations.

Webster University was established in 1915 in Webster Groves, Missouri. The University now serves students at its home campus, at three other locations in metropolitan St. Louis; on military installations across the United States; at campus centers in 21 states and the District of Columbia; and internationally at four European campuses, and six in Asia.