Abstract: This paper establishes a fire safety management system for universities, uses the DEMATEL/ISM methods to calculate influence degrees, influenced degrees, center degrees, cause degrees of the factors affecting the management, establishes a hierarchical structure model,and examines the locations of the influencing factors in the fire safety management system structure. The results show that fire safety organization staff, fire safety education, fire safety organization and responsibilities, fire safety management system and operation rules are cause factors having a great influence on other factors. Non-fire safety organization staff, building fire risk, fire protection facilities, and electrical facilities are the result factors and are greatly affected by other factors, and that the values of importance of fire safety inspection and rectification, fire safety culture, fire safety education, fire safety management system and operation regulations, fire safety organization personnel are gradually increasing in the entire fire safety management system, and it is necessary to strengthen both managing and controlling factors having great importance.

Key words: universities, fire safety management, influencing factors, decision making trial and evaluation laboratory(DEMATEL), interpretative structural modeling method(ISM)