As a state institution for both non-degree and degree courses and advanced technological studies, the Zamboanga City State Polytechnic College would have achieved its mandates by providing technically inclined youths in Region IX with all the desired Maritime, Scientific and Technological knowledge and skills for gainful economic pursuit. Furthermore, the College would be able to develop in the youth the ability to critically think, create, act positively and contribute to the full development of the family, community, Region IX and the entire nation.
Mission
The Zamboanga City State Polytechnic College shall take the leadership role in the frontiers of Science, Technology, Maritime and Technological-Vocational Education by providing effective and efficient services through professional and technical training and in the conduct of educational researches and technological studies to support its vision and development of the individual person, the family, the community, the region and the entire nation.
Philosophy
In an environment of academic freedom, excellence, and relevance, the Zamboanga City State Polytechnic College brings out the best of what it is to be human and harnesses, catalyzes and develops the constructive and productive use of the full potentials and capabilities of Region IX Filipino men and women into becoming creative, decisive, competitive, critically thinking and acting individuals who contribute to the socio-economic recovery of the nation in general, and the region in particular, making vocational-technical, maritime, science and technological education research extension available to the youths and the adults.