Abstract: Fixed assets are the basic material conditions to guarantee teaching and scientific research in universities. With the increasing attention of the nation to education, the number and types of fixed assets also increase, which increases the difficulty of asset management in universities. To a agricultural university as an example from the university fixed asset management system, management system, management concept and means and management team construction four aspects to the analysised of current management of fixed assets in institutions of higher education, combining the theory of new public management, put forward to perfect the fixed assets management system, standardized the management process, classification management and centralized management "four quadrant" management method, and combined the improvement opinion to strengthen the construction of fixed assets management team, to promoted the scientific allocation and efficient use of the fixed asset of university, and to achieved the goal of China's reform of higher education management.

Key words: new public management theory, universities, fixed assets, assets management