This volume begins its global tour with the case of Mexico. The Mexican case is significant because of its original importance in defining the primary types of private higher education. It shows trends that reflect rapid transformations in the country and tensions in developing countries at the intersection of resource constraints, relatively weak regulations, and educational demand. Chile forms the next case. The South American country exhibits what might be termed a private dominant higher education system, with an arguably elite core, some of it with operational support from the government. Privatization is a dominant theme, as all institutions, public and private, increasingly rely on nongovernmental sources of income. The third case presents Bulgaria. As part of postcommunist Europe, Bulgaria shows the swift development of a private sector, the regulatory responses, and responses of the public sector to new competition. Significant also is the challenge of regional harmonization with a still largely public-oriented European Union educational system. Next the volume turns to Africa and the case of Kenya. In Kenya the initial expansion is countered by a strong public sector response as well as a toughened regulatory scheme that resulted in slower enrollment growth in private higher education than elsewhere. The resilience of public privilege is emphasized. The chapter on Dubai follows. The newest entry into the private higher education universe, the emirate has followed a specific path of government-sanctioned expansion led by international branch campuses organized into free-trade zones. Demand is from the expatriate community and demonstrates a role of private higher education in establishing educational hubs. The case of Thailand is the sixth example in the volume. The country shows the diversity of private provision as well as the role of regulations in managing expansion and loan-financed tuition plans. The Thai case also emphasizes patterns of expansion and stagnation in reaction to policies and national instability. The U.S. case presents a subsector focus on growth, where for-profit growth has been the dominant source of expansion. The more traditional nonprofit institutions have adjusted their target student populations and adjusted curricula to reflect the changing and competitive market for higher education. The last case in the volume is that of cross-border higher education. The global survey of cross-border activity is included not only because its quick growth mimics trends seen in private higher education but also because private sector regulations are key to how host countries welcome or restrict foreign activity in their borders. The chapter suggests the plasticity of borders in an increasingly mobile world and the limitations of national models on transnational institutions. The volume concludes with a chapter reflecting on the global growth of higher education. Inspired both by the cases herein as well as other examples drawn from the wider private higher education literature, the concluding chapter suggests the trends and regional variations that explain the growth in private higher education and the diversity and distinctiveness of various models and institutional patterns. Speculation about the decline of private higher education is included as an additional complicating factor to explaining global growth patterns. (Contains 6 tables, 3 notes, and name and subject indexes.)