The faculty are dedicated to excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service, and to their role as models of Christian living. The university community seeks to provide an environment that both supports students and challenges them to critical thinking, an honest and open commitment to truth, and an awareness of their potential service to family, community and church. The school is a residential university that grants baccalaureate and masters-level graduate degrees. University programs encourage individual interaction among students, teachers, administrators, and staff members. Faculty and students at LCU work together toward spiritual, social, intellectual, and professional goals in undergraduate and graduate programs in both liberal arts and professional studies.
Graduate programs augment the university's curricular offerings.
Graduate programs in biblical studies and education serves to achieve the goal of preparing leaders for both church and community. Additional graduate programs, now under consideration, will be an expression of LCU's continued commitment to service. The mission of Lubbock Christian University is to teach students the spiritual dimension of life, provide a quality education, and impart a system of values for living and for service to family, community and church. LCU's desire is to pass on this faith and those values to future generations. This mission shapes the purpose of the university and commits Lubbock Christian University to educate, in each offered discipline, leaders who possess a deep and abiding faith in God, a concern for others, and a desire for continuous growth and improvement in all aspects of their lives.