The Faculty of Arts is the founding and longest serving faculty of the National University of Samoa. It offers a certificate program in Foundation, a Media & Journalism diploma program, as well as the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Arts – Secondary Teaching programs. Most recently, the programs of Master of Arts have been added, with a Postgraduate diploma as a pathway.

Courses offered by the Faculty include English, Japanese, Chinese, Communication, Media and Journalism, History, Geography, Anthropology and Sociology.

The Faculty houses three departments as follows: 

1. Department of English and Foreign Languages
2. Department of Media and Communication
3. Department of Social Sciences