A Study Of Educational Cost In Universities And Colleges Of China

With the implementation of Higher Education Popularization in China and the unprecedented attention from the society, colleges and universities have obtained favorable external environment and development space. Meanwhile, with the development of China's Market Economy, colleges and universities are experiencing competitions and challenges as well, thus necessitating qualified teaching staff, the training of graduates with high competence, as well as well-equipped hard and soft infrastructure, all of which capital-based. People have being regarded education as consumption and schools as non-profit organization for a long time, thus leading to the absence of motivity for resource utilization rate enhancing within the colleges and the external impetus for efficiency boosting. The coexistence of budget shortage and the waste of money sharpened the problem of education budget insufficiency in colleges and universities. Aiming at the persistent budget shortage for higher education and the low utilization rate for education resource, many colleges and universities have made theoretical research and practical exploration on education cost management, and have made much achievement. However, the study and research on cost control haven't received much concern. With our further comprehension on education, efficiency and benefit, the necessity and impendency for cost control for higher education come into being.This thesis begins with basic research, concentrating on the concerned concepts, background and current information, reasoning the necessity and importance of cost control, analyzing the features of education cost for higher education, thus bringing forward the problems in cost control for current higher education system, providing the foundation for the research in control methods; then it continues to put forward the basic principals for cost control from basic notions in cost control for higher education; at last, it analyses the procedures, methods and measures for cost control for higher education. This thesis is expected to boost up the public concern in the cost control for higher education and function as essential addition to cost control.