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How Much Can We Scale?

Scale: How big can Malengo get?

1

Addressable market

On the demand side, UNESCO data indicate that there are 76.1m students who graduate from secondary school in low-income countries each year. Combining this figure with country-specific data on the share of people under 25 who want to permanently migrate to another country from the Gallup World Poll, we estimate that 22.2m secondary school graduates from low-income countries may want to study abroad each year.

On the supply side, an estimated 26.1m students start a BA program in high- and upper-middle income countries each year. Thus, existing capacity in high- and upper-middle income countries would have to increase by 85% to accommodate all potentially interested students from low-income countries.[1]

2

Countries for scaling

Table 1 provides an overview of study conditions in a select number of OECD countries. What these countries have in common is that they subsidize tuition fees, so that study costs are lower than e.g. in the US, the UK, or Canada, which are omitted for this reason. As a result, the cost of a degree ranges from USD 11,667 to USD 74,469, assuming that students have part-time jobs in the latter years of the degree (column 1). Combining these figures with OECD data on average salaries in these countries (column 2), students earn back the cost of the degree within between 2.5 months and 1.5 years of working (column 3).

To estimate the number of potentially available spots for foreign students in these countries, we collected all Bachelor programs taught in English or French. Based on informal conversations with universities, we conservatively estimate that each program has 30 spots for foreign students per year (with the exception of France, where this approach resulted in an implausibly large number of spots; here we used official numbers of first-year enrollment and assumed that 20% of those spots could be taken by foreign students). This yields a total of 217,000 estimated spots for students from low-income countries each year. The total potential direct cost for this number of students is USD 8.8bn per year.

Table 1: Study conditions for low-income country students across countries

CountryTotal cost of tuition + first-year living expensesAverage salaryHow many years of average salary to earn back entire BA degree cost?Estimated number of spots for foreign students per yearFinancing volume per year
Belgium$11,667$55,5900.2130,540$356,316,972
Austria$11,967$53,9030.221,230$14,719,150
Germany$13,542$53,6390.254,020$54,438,840
Norway$14,235$54,0270.2690$1,281,150
France$17,439$46,4810.3864,913$1,132,023,821
Switzerland$28,702$66,5670.4310,320$296,203,523
Italy$21,445$39,1890.551,170$25,090,355
Portugal$27,052$38,7590.702,280$61,679,360
Denmark$41,481$57,1500.731,950$80,888,645
Netherlands$45,793$56,5520.8113,680$626,448,816
Finland$46,371$45,6981.013,180$147,459,820
Sweden$52,015$46,4951.123,390$176,331,575
Spain$51,432$38,7581.336,420$330,191,368
Ireland$74,469$50,4901.4773,920$5,504,768,256
Total217,103$8,807,841,652