Examining Regional Disparities in Higher Education Equity in Terms of Size, Faculty, and Funding

Abstract

With the expansion of higher education in China and the relaxation of policies, the popularization and massization of higher education have led to the connotative development and steady improvement of higher education in China. However, due to the different environments of economy, policy and geography, there are some regional differences and equity problems in the process of rapid development of higher education in China. In this paper, the education data of 31 provinces, municipalities directly under the central government and autonomous regions in China will be used as the basis to study the three aspects of education scale, faculty and education expenses through the Gini coefficient analysis method. The research results show that with the efforts of some aspects such as national policies, the regional differences in higher education in China have become more and more relatively fair in recent years. In contrast, compared to the central and western regions, the eastern region is the region where the greatest disparity exists in higher education development.