The objectives of the research is ti know the implementation of policy and implementation of the research program and the public service at Higher Education (HE). The research method is the mixed of quantitative and qualitative methods with a descriptive analysis. Sample of the research is 160 respondents taken purposively of head and members of the research and public service instutions at public and private of HE. The research was conducted for 7 months from April to October 2008 at six provinces : West Nusa Tenggara province , Bali province, Special Yogyakarta province, west Sumatera provine, and South Sumatera provine. Tools and the techniques of data collecting are using documentation study, questionnaries, interview and focus group discussion. Primary data is the information from the resource persons from HE while the secondary data is taken from the the documents about the rules as well as the laws and the related research done by other people. The findings of the research are : 1) the policy of research program and the public service at HE is based on the general policy of the HE Directorate, Ministry of National Education; 2) the implementation of policy in improving quality of HE still has constrains such as the instutions of research and public service are still sparate, the socialization of programs of public service is still low, and most lectures at HE are still lack of having research methodology; 3) the research findings of both public and private HE can be implemented to develop and improve science. However, there has a few of the research findings that can be used for improving teaching and learning materaials for higher education, very few of national as well international publications, and very few of having patent rights; and 4) the activities in public service are not based on the findings of the research yet.