The evaluation of higher education financing in the context of selected countries

For a country, reaching to developed civilizations level, development of its economy and socio-cultural structure, increasing quality of individual capital and services offered for citizens is directly proportional with the importance given to education. As the quality and sufficiency of the education service given in a country increases, the development of the country becomes faster in the same extent. In this study where the financing structure of high education which is the last steps of the education service, initially the theory was emphasized and then comparison of resources allocated to financing of the higher education were included among countries. In the last section, the reasons of existing differences among countries in the financing of higher education were focused. In this context, the aim of the study is to determine the relative rates in GDP and government budget of the resources allocated to the financing of higher in the various countries which are the members of OECD (the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and to examine the existing differences among countries.