Higher education governance in Yugoslavia is described, and comparisons are made to the United States. Major differences between the countries are reflected in three areas: physical facilities, internal relations, and external relations. In the main, physical facilities at Yugoslav faculties are well-developed and maintained, despite the fact that this is not an affluent nation. Communications among individual faculties are conducted through the office of the president of the university, which has limited authority and tends to coordinate the loose confederation of individual faculties. The faculty, which is a powerful and independent entity, has authority to conduct activities that would be entrusted to top administrators at U.S. colleges. Individual deans have considerably less power than in the United States. Students enrolled in one faculty take all their courses there (i.e., a faculty of economics includes professors from other disciplines). Further information is provided on: budgeting for faculties, the selection of new professors, teaching loads, the council decision-making process, and time commitments to faculty meetings. (SW)