Abstrak: Education system managed by any institution should serve stakeholders in the country stisfactorily. people’s trust must be returned back to the community by providing the best services perfect education system could only be established by managing input, process, and output, that is orientated to a quality standard. This aproach is well known as Total Quality Management or TQM. This paper presents a discussion on the understanding, background, strength, and the application strategy of TQM into education management system including its relation to Operational Subsidy for Quality Management or “Bantuan Operational Management Mutu” (BOMM)