This paper describes the crucial factors of a design for university development overseas based on the Rockefeller Foundation efforts in overseas development. These factors include a definable rationale, an explicit criteria, a plan for various stages of development and institutional capacity for grappling with problems of national development. Implementation of university development program is based on a four-phase operation: institution building, national leadership, consolidation, and an effort by the first generation university development center to assist a second generation center. Models of university development centers are included. (MJM)