Students required to raise the blue-yellow flag and discontinue teaching of the Soviet ideological subjects.

April 21, 1993, by the order of the Minister of Culture of Ukraine Ivan Dziuba, professor Mykhailo Poplavsky [uk] was assigned to the post of the rector of the Kyiv State Institute of Culture and Arts as the informal leader of the student body, from which the new stage in the history of KSIC began.

By the year 1996 the new rector has gathered highly qualified teaching staff, has developed and put into practice a number of alternative financing.

November 11, 1997 the Cabinet of Ministers granted the status of Kyiv State University of Culture and Arts to the KSIC.

The first doctoral specialities "Bibliology and Libraryology" in Ukraine, "Social pedagogy", "Method of musical education" were opened.