The Department of History is the academic unit of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines that is mandated to:
- produce historians, historiographers, researchers, instructors/professors, and social analysts who are expert in the different job-related skills of the discipline.
- produce researches that will benefit the students, the academe, and other stakeholders.
- promote a critical study of the past that serves as the identity of the people and the guiding light of the present.
- conduct profound extension and outreach programs that will benefit the Filipino people.