5 HUMAN, Research in Rehabilitation Hariz Agić 1 Original scientifc paper Sead Rešić Pedagogy Institute of Tuzla Canton Faculty of Science, Univerzity of Tuzla Received: 29.01.2012 UDC: Accepted: 22.02.2012 ABSTRACT We are witnessing the emergence of private universities “like mushrooms after rain”. It is more than clear that they are not well met by state universities. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a very fertile ground for setting this palette of problems in the educational focus of interest of the public, because there are no competent ministries of education at the state level. There is framework law on the state level but nothing exists anywhere along the vertical axis. This produced distortion of the quality and reputation of higher education. In this paper a survey among teachers and students of private and state university was conducted and has shown that there are differences in opinions of respondents in some respects regarding the quality of work. The solution would be replacing the stereotypical opinions about the differences between private and public universities and entirely rotating them toward a new, living approach to ensuring quality of education. Key words: private and state universities, the quality of university education 1 Correspodence to: Agić Haris, Pedagogy Institute of Tuzla Canton Phone: +387 61 109 899 E-mail: agich59@hotmail.com AN OVERVIEW OF QUALITY AT STATE AND PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES HUMAN, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2012 INTRODUCTION The current structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina has made it possible for universities to be established in certain environments and appear in a large number, but in other environments they are practically nonexistent, depending on whether a state university exists there, how powerful it is, as well as on presence of bracing between political elite and possible founders of the university. The situation in this are is more than chaotic. There are claims and opinions that private universities are being completed without actual problems for students, regarding studying, with lesser demands, provided that school fees are paid regularly. On the other hand, state universities do not accept diplomas of students who graduated from private universities. This is the most prominent in procedures regarding elections for teaching profession, where masters and doctors of sciences are not welcome to state universities (Nezavisne, 2009). 378.057:378.014.3(497.6) 378.058:378.014.3(497.6)