The Influence of Socioeconomic Background Students' Access to China Private University Strategies for Addressing | [Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences • 2025]

Author(s):

1. Xiang Ruoyu: National Higher Education Research Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia; Universiti Islam Melaka, Batu 28, Kuala Sungai Baru, 78200 Melaka, Malaysia

2. Rohayati Mohd Isa: Universiti Islam Melaka, Batu 28, Kuala Sungai Baru, 78200 Melaka, Malaysia

Abstract:

This paper explores the social, structural, contextual, and organizational challenges limiting the private higher education opportunity for disadvantaged learners in China. With a heuristic qualitative systematic review, it emphasizes how funding issues, early education prejudice, cultural prejudice, and institutional constraint contribute to the marginalization of undesirable private universities. Largely unaffordable tuition fees coupled with low access to financial aid sources lock out lowincome and rural students, and a defective early childhood education system weakened competency. Moreover, prejudices against private universities and cultural representativeness deepen some psychopathological disturbances like loneliness and realization of the Minerva syndrome. Political and financial setbacks equally curtail resourcedeficient private universities' capacity to support marginalized groups. In view of these challenges, the study suggests that government should tighten financial aid, reform early childhood education, and promote cultural diversity and relations between institutions and government. This study provides actionable policy recommendations to promote equity and inclusion for marginalized students in China's private higher education system.

Page(s): 2660-2671

DOI: 10.57239/PJLSS-2025-23.1.00209

Published: Journal: Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Year: 2025

Keywords:

Socioeconomic Background Marginalized Students Private University Education

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