The French pride themselves on having a free university open to all.
They brag less about its poor results with 56% failures in the first year of the license (in 2018), a diploma that only 30% of students obtain after three years.
However, according to the QS World University Rankings 2021, the countries with the best universities are those where the share of the private sector is the largest in spending on higher education.
This share represents 64.8% in the United States (first in the ranking), 71.4% in the United Kingdom (second), 62.2% in Australia (fourth), 67.6% in Japan (fifth).
French private higher education establishments essentially group together around a hundred engineering and business schools, preparatory classes for grandes écoles, and finally 13 private university education establishments only, including 6 Catholic institutes.
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