Project Summary

While it is widely agreed that higher education contributes to the public dimension of society, the public benefits of higher education are untheorized, poorly defined and not readily measured. As a result, higher education tends to be undervalued and under-financed. This project takes a comparative approach to considering this tension, using contrasting case studies from ten countries around the world. The project is coordinated by colleagues at the University of Oxford (UK). The Center for International Higher Education is responsible for conducting the US case study and for contributing to the overall comparative analysis.