摘要：The objective of the paper is to analyze students’ perceptions and expectations of their future incomes. By doingso, authors bring a possible quantitative argument about the rate of return of investment into higher educationbased on data from selected economic universities, and thus open space for discussion about financing of Czechpublic universities from public or private sources. The authors used data from a large survey among studentsof selected faculties of economics and compared the results from Czech, Polish and English respondents. Allthe performed tests have indicated and identified one critical finding that confirmed results of previous surveys:the value of the spot expected rates of return on investment to tertiary education for the Czech Republicnever falls below 8.45 per cent, even when allowed for gender of respondents, knowledge about incomeof respondents’ friends, or level of education of respondents’ parents
关键词：Tertiary education; rate of return; income; tuition fee; investment
