Popsilachova, Adela
Who Gains from Higher Education?
The question of higher education and the distribution of its costs concerns mostly the question of who profits from the education of students. We can speak about higher education as about the public good only insofar as we are able to find demonstrable positive effects that individual education has on society as whole, and the individual is not able to charge society for reaping that benefit. If we want to consider higher education as a pure public good, it would also be necessary to prove that higher education has a positive effect only on society and brings no benefit to the individual student.
