Management of federal property at the university. Could it be simplified?

A modern Russian university today is a large property complex, the effective use of which is necessary to ensure educational and scientific process problems in regard to academic process. However, universities also have to solve a wide range of social problems related to creating and maintaining a comfortable environment for students and professors, amongst other things engaging various organizations to create social services on campus. Although, characterization of outsourcing practices at universities shows that the existing legal base is incomplete, resulting in long and expensive procedures. All that reduces the universities’ effectiveness in solving an issue of creating a comfortable environment for learning and scientific research. The article analyses the decision-making process for some types of leases and proposes different measures to improve the regulatory framework, controlling the management of state property at universities.