Aim of research is an attempt to create the methodology for University campuses (UC) energy certification system for Ukraine. Therefore, taking into account national conditions, the certification variant, based on the instrumental approach to the UC data as a whole, has been suggested and analyzed. Normalized information on energy consumption has been analyzed based on weather and climatic conditions and operating parameters of UCs and used for UCs clustering based on the Universities' activity profiles and their specific energy consumption. There was a research conducted of three variants of energy efficiency grading for UCs of Ukraine according to end-use specific heat consumption, electricity consumption, total energy consumption and specific water consumption. The paper demonstrates possibilities and problems of using certification to determine the UCs energy consumption efficiency. The offered approach allows to determine the University campuses energy performance in general and using certification to compare UCs energy efficiency. Crown Copyright (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.