대학교육의 효과와 그 비용 부담- 실태 및 정책 방향 -

Abstract

The problem that who should load the cost of university education in what degree has been a hot social topic and academic issue. There have been many subjective assertions about the problem with simple sense of justice. This study starts with the notion that academic discussion about the problem should be based on objective data and theoretical rationality. In accordance with this notion, this study searched and examined the statistical data concerning the cost and benefit of university education in Korea. Data shows that the ratio of private cost of university education exceeds the ratio of private benefit from university graduation in case of man. Whereas,the ratio of public benefit from university graduation is lower than the ratio of public cost of university education in case of woman. In the type of university foundation, public university student receives as much educational services from his/her university as private university student at the relatively lower tuition fee. In order to recover these disparities, deliberate policies are proposed in this study on the following principles; linkage of the public/private cost ratio of university to the public/private benefit ratio from university graduation, linkage of the founder/benefit-recipient load ratio of public university expenditure to that of private university expenditure, and linkage of the tuition fee level per capita to the educational expenditure per capita.