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In this paper a COBIT and ITIL frameworks would be discussed as a part of IT academic courses at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (FNSM), Republic of Macedonia. FNSM develops unique and professional standards into the higher education. It offers modern faculty premises and facilities with state-of-the-art IT infrastructure, research and academic collaboration with Universities around the globe and affiliation with many industry partners. COBIT is a proven set of standardized processes that businesses can use to ensure that information technology is effectively and securely integrated with business goals. COBIT is a framework and a knowledge base for IT processes and their management. The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of books comprising an IT service management Best Practices framework.

These two frameworks are worldwide recognized for professional certification. Aligning COBIT and ITIL courses with academic subjects, makes these frameworks understandable to students and prepares them to successfully attend professional COBIT and ITIL courses and take the COBIT and ITIL Certificates. This paper presents our experiences into aligning the COBIT and ITIL frameworks in academic science education curricula at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.