ABSTRACT Today, academic ethics, research and publication ethics, managerial ethics violations comes up frequently. In this article, the issue of ethics in the public administration literature increasingly important field of application are discussed in scale of universities. The subject of the article, of the university ethics committee is to demonstrate the structural and functional status in Turkey. In the article, it has been examined the national and international literature in order that the current structure and functioning and the detection of problems. It is formed that the theoretical and conceptual framework of the studies. Previously made academic studies have examined. Firstly, in the phase of field study, it is determined university ethics committees-structure through the official website of the universities. Chairman and members have started to access the stage, and then to the designated online survey questionnaire was implemented within the framework of the chairman and members. Survey results show that if the ethics committee is functional reveals that it is important to reduction of ethical distress, elimination in higher education.