Do Proprietary Institutions of Higher Education Generate Savings for States? A National Case Study

• In Event: 69.030 - Critical Perspectives on the Future of For-Profit Higher Education: Reconsidering Institutional and Policy Factors

Abstract

The author presents calculations from academic year 2007-08 through 2011-12 of the financial implications to taxpayer across states nationwide. In this article, he argues that taxpayers would incur much higher costs if students had to enroll in two- and four-year public institutions rather than if they enrolled in proprietary colleges and universities in their state.

Author

• Jorge Klor de Alva, Nexus Research & Policy Center