The Academic Council of the National University of Water Management and Nature Use is a collegial governing body of the university. In its activities, the Academic Council of the university is guided by the Constitution of Ukraine, Laws of Ukraine, Decrees of the President of Ukraine, Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, other legislative acts of Ukraine, and the University Charter.

The Academic Council is formed for a term of five years, and its composition is approved by the order of the rector of NUWMNU within five working days from the expiration of the term of the previous composition of the Academic Council. The organizational form of the Academic Council's work is meetings, which are held at least once a month.

Scientific councils of educational and research institutes may be formed at the university, the powers of which are determined by the Academic Council of the university in accordance with the charter. The Academic Council of the university may delegate some of its powers to the scientific councils of educational and research institutes.

Tasks of the Academic Council of the National University of Water Management and Nature Use include:

1. determining the strategy and prospective directions for the development of the educational, scientific, and innovative activities of the university;
2. developing and submitting to the staff conference the draft charter of NUWMNU, as well as decisions on amendments to it;
3. approving the financial plan and annual financial report of the university, reports on the activities of separate structural units;
4. determining and approving the system and procedures for internal quality assurance in higher education, considering the issues of the quality of professional training of university graduates and its further improvement;
5. making decisions on the placement of its own revenues in the main office of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine in the Rivne region or in banking institutions;
6. making decisions, upon the rector's submission, regarding the establishment and liquidation of structural units;
7. conducting competitive and secret voting for the positions of directors of educational and research institutes, institutes, deans, heads of departments, professors, associate professors, library director, heads of branches, and colleges;
8. approving educational programs and curriculum for each level of higher education and specialty;
9. making decisions on the organization of the educational process, determining the study periods at the respective levels;
10. approving the form and procedure for issuing its own higher education document, regulations on the procedure and grounds for issuing it to graduates, as well as samples, the procedure, and grounds for issuing joint and double diplomas to graduates;
11. approving the main directions of scientific research and innovation activities;
12. evaluating the scientific and pedagogical activities of structural units;
13. conferring academic titles of professor, associate professor, and senior researcher and submitting relevant decisions for approval to the certification board of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine;
14. making final decisions on the recognition of foreign documents on higher education, academic degrees, and academic titles when hiring pedagogical, scientific, scientific-pedagogical, and other staff, as well as during the admission of applicants for education.