Changes in the Affordability of 4-Year Public Higher Education in China during Massification

Autor/inn/en	Liu, Shuhua; Wang, Enhao; Wang, Xuyan
Titel	Changes in the Affordability of 4-Year Public Higher Education in China during Massification
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Education Review, 22 (2021) 2, S.273-289 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Liu, Shuhua) ORCID (Wang, Enhao) ORCID (Wang, Xuyan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1598-1037
DOI	10.1007/s12564-020-09666-6
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Costs; Higher Education; Public Colleges; Tuition; Educational History; Economic Factors; Family Income; Money Management; Student Financial Aid; Socioeconomic Status; Paying for College; Rural Urban Differences; Geographic Regions; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Cost; Kosten; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Unterweisung; Unterricht; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Ökonomischer Faktor; Familieneinkommen; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Stadt-Land-Beziehung
Abstract	This study investigates how the affordability of 4-year public higher-education tuition in China changed during the massification period. To conduct an in-depth analysis, this paper examines a wide range of data from the National Bureau of Statistics and adopts a series of measurement indicators, including average tuition as a percentage of per-capita GDP, its share in per-capita disposable income and family savings, and its ratio to financial aid. First, this study concludes that during massification, college affordability rapidly declined and then continuously increased. While for a significant majority of Chinese families college tuition is not an unbearable financial burden, it remains expensive for households in the "lowest-income quintile." Second, this paper sheds light on the gap in residents' ability to pay higher-education tuition between urban and rural areas, different regions, and different income groups. It finds a rapid widening in the gap in these dimensions during the early years of massification, which in recent years has gradually narrowed. Indeed, the mode of Chinese higher education has quickly transformed from "high tuition and low aid" to "low tuition and high aid." (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01