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Purpose of the Study: The aim of this study is to find out the effectiveness of Balikesir University Student Council in the students' views. Method: For this reason the regulation prepared by Turkish Interuniversity Council for Students Councils of universities and Balikesir University Student Council Instructions were examined and a data collection tool was improved, one consisting of 34 items, 12 of which were from personal information and 22 from questionnaire statements of Likert type 6 valued scores. The first implementation results of the questionnaires were analyzed with SPSS program. The reliability value was found R=.961 and the variance value with single factor was =63.076. The questionnaires were applied to 682 students from 4 faculties, 2 Applied Schools and a Vocational School at Balikesir University. Findings and Results: According to findings from the questionnaires with SPSS, more than half of the students (52.6%) were found not to know anything about Student Council and those who reported that they know the Council said that they were informed by their friends. The students at Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences were found as the group with the highest rates about the Council. 63% of the students reported that they do not know the representative from their class at the council, 66.7% do not know the representative of their department, 70.2% do not know the representative of their Faculty/Vocational School and 86.1% even do not know the head of Student Council. Difference was found in Students' views at different faculties/schools. The students at Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences with the highest rate of information about Student Council believe that the council is quite effective. There is no significant difference in views according to gender. However, significant difference has been found in results of students according to the year they study. In general students have negative views about effectiveness of Student Council and the difference was found among stages of the negative views of them. In conclusion, Balikesir University Student Council is not effective according to the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]