A social system is a bounded set of elements and activities that interact and constitute a Single social entity (Hoy & Miskel, 2008) a social system is a model of organization that possesses a distinctive total unity beyond its component parts, distinguished from its environment by a clearly defined boundary. It is subunits, elements, and subsystems that are at least interrelated within relatively stable patterns of social order. (Olsen, n.d) However, the University is a system social of interaction, it is an organized whole that comprised of interacting personalities bound together in an organic relationship. It could also be featured by an interdependent of parts, a clearly defined population, and different from the environment, a complex network of social relationships. Like any formal organization, University, call attention to both the planned and unplanned, the formal and informal aspects of organizational life. (Bush, 2003).
The following are some of the indicators that made a university to be a social system, they are derived from basic assumptions of the social system theory as stated by Hoy & Miskel (2008).