Higher Education Forum Volume 12
published_at 2015-03

The End of the Boom : Private higher education in Mexico in the first decade of the 21st century

Álvarez Mendiola Germán
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Abstract
This work is part of current research focused on private higher education in Mexico, under an economic sociology approach of the education market and territorial integration. The paper focuses on four key topics: the current characteristics of growth and supply of private higher education; the forms that its territorial distribution in the country adopts; some general features of the economy of private higher education as the business size in the national economy and the price structure; and the relationship between changes in the regulatory environment and strategies of private institutions to gain social legitimacy and competitiveness.
Keywords
Economics of private higher education
Higher education in Mexico
Private higher education
Regulation of private higher education
Territorial distribution of private higher education