Financing of Universities and tuition fees

This thesis deals with the funding of universities in the Czech Republic. The primary objective is to evaluate the current funding system and highlight its shortcomings. The first part deals with the very meaning of higher education and sees it as a mixed public good. Mentions the reasons for that is socially and economically desirable to make higher education a sufficient amount of money and takes the benefits they derive from it the whole society, but also specific individuals. It focuses on the financing of private and especially public universities, state universities are mentioned only in passing. It also shows the development of higher education through selected graphs and statistics. Currently, schools financed mostly from public sources. This paper describes why this happens and discussed possible options of bringing higher education to the private sector and thereby improve their mutual cooperation. A relatively large part is reserved the issue of tuition fees and the current proposals