The Market Imperative: Segmentation and Change in Higher Education

by Robert Zemsky and Susan Shaman

Thinking about American higher education as an economic market changes everything.

It is no surprise that college tuition and student debt are on the rise. Universities no longer charge tuition to simply cover costs. They are market enterprises that charge whatever the market will bear. Institutional ambition, along with increasing competition for students, now shape the economics of higher education.

In The Market Imperative,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421424118
• ISBN13: 9781421424118
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"