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A differentiated higher education system in the United States has a long history that has evolved from state-chartered religious institutions in colonial America to complex state-systems and autonomous private non-profit and for-profit institutions that receive large federal subsidies through research funding and student grants and loans.
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Tierney, W.G., Ward, J.D. (2017). The Transformation of the System of Postsecondary Education in the United States. In: Altbach, P.G., Reisberg, L., Wit, H.d. (eds) Responding to Massification. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-083-7_15
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