
The university has a centralized budget for better management and provision of quality, but the units have their respective sub-accounts which provide them with the necessary autonomy and responsibility to operate and develop activities for research and teaching. All decision-making processes involve the vice-rectors, deans / directors of units, the scientific and teaching councils / scientific councils of the units. Nikola Jankulovski) followed by the Rector’s Board. It is managed by a Senate, chaired by the Rector (Prof. UKIM is an autonomous institution that decides independently about its mission, strategy, structure, activities, management. In accordance with the Statute, the University units have Rulebooks that arrange their relations and operations. The Statute is the main act of the University that must be endorsed by its founder – the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia. The Law on Higher Education has harmonized the entire structure of the University in 2008, with the legal provisions to become an integrated autonomous university.

Its activity is arranged by the Law on Higher Education and the Statute of the University. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (UKIM) is a public higher educational institution and the first state university in the Republic of Macedonia.
