KSOU, as an outstanding Institution of academic excellence, to achieve the above vision in a decade aims:

• To foster the open and distance learning environment that promotes excellence in teaching, research, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship;

• To promote personal and professional success of learners in order to enable them to contribute for sustainable, scientific, technological and socio-economic growth at state, national and global level.

• To meet various quality criteria established by University accreditation agencies and to be one among of top five Open Universities in terms of score.

• To facilitate, strengthen and expand the network of Regional Centres and Learner Support Centres for providing equitable, flexible, accessible, and effective learning opportunities to contribute to national gross enrolment ratio.

• To contribute to the national development by producing competitive workforce with requisite domain knowledge, skill, aptitude, competency and confidence with outstanding academic portfolios.

• To inculcate, ethics and values in life, care for conservation of natural resources and protection of environment, culture, constitutional commitments for promoting the inclusive development for social wellbeing.