private higher education

With private higher education emerging in the late 1980s and challenging the public monopoly that had long been the norm in Vietnam, debates arise.

FOMHEIs exist on every continent and number in the thousands. Many are established with a social mission and are nonprofit, while others are for-profit and linked to family businesses.

In the face of the continued expansion of the public sector, the abolition of tuition fees in the public sector, and the opening up of the higher education market to foreign players, private institutions grapple with their changing roles.

The state has recently legalized the nonprofit form, but many critics have doubts about how nonprofit the emergent nonprofit form will be.