Implementing a reform of higher education, colloquially named as “Constitution for science” carries certain information needs in the area of creating new strategic management of a public university and determining its organizational structure. Efficiency and productivity of higher education in Poland and worldwide inseparably connect with problems of the way of financing and control of source spending. An amendment of a Regulation of a Minister of Science and Higher Education of a way of sharing the grants from a state budget for public and non-public universities in December 2016 which was a sign of changes in the attitude of executing tasks imposed on universities resulted in adjustment processes of public universities and posed questions again: how to manage a university and which managing model is the most effective for a specific university? Both “pro-quality” approach and potential organizational internal changes of universities will cause a necessity of different attitude towards a way of providing information for management decisions. When retaining basic functional aims a controlling approach will play a prominent part at public universities. It is connected with fast development of IT systems implemented at public universities (“one-base” systems of information management) and also with a requirement of more effective management of public funds. Preparation of functional models conditions of public universities adequate to changes becomes one of major tasks and challenges that Polish universities have to face. In this article data from a chosen public university of economic profile was used. 

higher education reform, distribution of state budget funds between universities, university activity efficiency, information system of the public university