Imam University Council is responsible for managing the university’s academic, administrative and financial affairs, and implementing the university’s general policy. Imam University Council is specifically vested with the authority to:

1. Approve plans for training and sponsored study programs.
2. Propose the establishment of colleges, institutes, departments, research centers, and support deanships, and propose amending their names, merging, or abolishing them.
3. Approve the university’s scientific and postgraduate degrees and programs.
4. Confer degrees on the university’s graduates.
5. Confer honorary doctorates.
6. Specify details of the academic calendar according to the general framework for the start and end of the university years, as well as specifying the vacations within the year.
7. Approve secondment of faculty members, their dispatch, send them on academic missions, grant sabbatical leaves, and terminate their services, all in accordance with regulations governing these matters.
8. Approve curricula, degree plans, textbooks, and references.
9. Propose the student stipend and other aid to students.
10. Approve the university proposed budget and forward it to the Minister of Higher Education.
11. Approve internal university codes.
12. Propose the bylaws that are unique to the university, or their amendment.
13. Discuss the university annual report before submittal to the Council of Higher Education.
14. Determine the amounts allocated for each college, institute, support deanship, and independent research center to spend in accordance with the financial codes.
15. Discuss the university closing accounts before submittal to the Prime Minister.
16. Approve the university’s plans for extra-curricular activities.
17. Make final decisions on the appointment of faculty members based on recommendations of the scientific council.
18. Accept donations, gifts, testaments, etc., provided that they do not conflict with the main purpose for which the university was established.
19. Establish regulations governing visiting students, or those transferring to and from the university.
20. Consider matters referred to it by the Minister of Higher Education, the rector of the university, or proposed by any of its members.