Higher Education (The Rise of For-Profit Universities)

Author: (USA) Richard Luke, translated by Yu Peiwen
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: In American higher education institutions, for-profit universities have firmly captured a significant share of the student market. Richard Luke focuses on several representative for-profit higher education companies in the United States, such as Devry, AGGI Education Group, Apollo Group, etc. He analyzes the structure and services of these institutions and explains in detail how they generate profits from tuition fees. He points out that these major for-profit colleges have opened up new pathways for the development of higher education and will inevitably exert an increasingly significant influence.