This paper was intended to analyze policies to support structural reforms of private universities by adopting an analytic framework drawn from the perspective of political science. The framework helps analyze issues from position differences on elements of structural reform policy between the government and universities, based on judgmental criteria established, and diagnose them. This study focuses on the governmental project to support structural reforms of private universities out of policies to support university structural reforms which run from 2005 through 2008. Conclusions drawn from the analysis are as follows: First, setting up the objectives of the project reflected relevant demands from the environments, but inadequately represented hierachical order between the objectives. Second, the project's contents seem consistent with such top priority missions as reduction in a number of college enrollments, improvement in education conditions, and so on, but fall short of strengthening university competitiveness. Third, the implementation mechanism of the project focuses on internal cooperations between governmental ministries, and does not respond to demands from universities and changes in policy situations in an appropriate way. Finally, the outcomes of the project lack spreading effects over the nation's colleges and universities, comparing to attaining the objectives in appearance.