Private higher education

In the past half-century and especially since the new millennium, there has been a small but remarkable development of high quality nonprofit private universities, especially in the Global South.

This article discusses the state’s governance model relating to the underenrolled PHE sector and analyzes the pluralist-market oriented strategies adopted by semielite private institutions, in a context of local and global competition.

This article includes statistics about the size of the sector compared to the public sector, discusses motives for establishing and running a private higher education institution, and focuses on the public debates and perceptions about the private sector.