Remaking Universities: Continuing Reform of Higher Education
Chapter 3. The Financial Pucture
Section 1. Allocation of Costs
1. Funding of Universities and Other Institutions of Highter Education
The total operating expenses of universities, junior colleges, and colleges of technology in Japan amounted to 6,248,900 million yen in fiscal 1992: 2,245,600 million yen for national institutions, 429,400 million yen for local public institutions, and 3,573,900 million yen for private institutions. The main source of funding for national and local public institutions is allocations from the national budget or the budgets of local governments, augmented by tuition and other student fees. Private institutions receive subsidies from the central government and local governments, but their main source of funding is tuition and other student fees.
