The broad objective of Federal University of Technology Ikot Abasi is to produce competent and qualified graduates with strong moral and academic standing. The specific objectives are:

• To encourage the advancement of learning and to hold out to all persons without distinction of race, creed, sex or political conviction the opportunity of acquiring a higher and liberal education.
• To provide courses of instruction and other facilities for the pursuit of learning in all its branches, and to make those facilities available on proper terms to such persons as are equipped to benefit from them.
• To encourage and promote scholarship and conduct research in all fields of learning and human endeavour.
• To relate its activities to the social and economic needs of the people of the State and the Nation at large.
• To undertake any other activities appropriate for a university of the highest standard.