With the opening of the university he began as a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, in the Department of Islamic Sciences and Law, in three languages: Albanian, English and Turkish.

The election of Bruçaj to the position was considered by many Muslims and imams in Albania as illegal and violating MCA statutes.

[3] They viewed Bruçaj's election as successful interference by the Gülen movement which for them sought to dominate the main Muslim institution of Albania.

[3] Major Albanian politicians commended the election of Bruçaj as MCA leader, as did many Western embassies in Albania.

[3] As a newly elected leader, Bruçaj stated that a taskforce had been established to place certain mosques not following the ideology of the MCA under the control of the organisation.