This work deals with the financing structure of professional higher education of Punjab. From the study, it becomes clear that the financing practices of higher education of the state need serious attention. The financing of higher education has been a complicated problem due to theoretical and practical problems in Punjab and India as well particularly during post- economic reforms period, when more than 89 per cent of the professional education of the state were under private ownership. It has been largely a state funded activity with about three-quarters of the total expenditure being...