Prerequisites for the economic sustainability of higher education

Quantitative accretion leads to a qualitative change. This problem has grown in the educational system over the past few years. As a result of the methodology for calculating the funding of the universities, which is based on the number of students studying, and accordingly birth rate, there is a chronic shortage of funding and ineffective budget estimates. Decrease of 42.893% from 1989 till nowadays in the birth rate in Bulgaria, is in the basis of the current problem, putting universities in a unsustainable market.The number of Bulgarian citizens who have gone abroad under the age of 35 after 1990 is over 700 thousand, of which with higher education are over 20%, the students in higher education institutions abroad are more than 50.000 young people.