China' Move to Mass Higher Education: An Analysis of Policy Making from a Rational Framework

Jun Li and Jing Lin

China is country with largest national higher ed system in the world since 2003 (UNESCO 2003)

policy made June 24, 1999

1991: 3.5% of cohort 7,2% in 1995, 13,3% in 2001, 21% in 2005 and 22% in 2002. 

average institutional size quadrupled from 2,381 to 8,715in 2005

UNESCO 2003. Synthesis report on trends and development in higher education since the World Conference on Higher Education (1998-2003).