Comparison of higher education patterns based on opportunity cost

摘要

Higher education is important to culture special talent, develop science and technology, and improve modernization. There are two patterns of higher education: commonweal pattern and non-commonweal pattern. Non-commonweal pattern makes direct benefits, and also has heavy opportunity costs, including the loss of educational equality, the decline of educational quality and the expansion of unemployment, etc. Comparison of the opportunity costs of those patterns aims at electing better pattern of higher education.