Higher Education Company: The Rise of For-Profit Universities

Author: Richard Luke (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: In the United States, for-profit universities have firmly secured a significant share of the student market in higher education institutions. Richard Luke focuses on several representative for-profit higher education companies in the U.S., such as Devry University, AGGI Education Group, Apollo Group, and others. He analyzes the structure and services of these institutions and provides a detailed explanation of 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.