This work is part of current research focused on private higher education in Mexico, under an economic sociology approach of the education market and territorial integration. The paper focuses on four key topics: the current characteristics of growth and supply of private higher education; the forms that its territorial distribution in the country adopts; some general features of the economy of private higher education as the business size in the national economy and the price structure; and the relationship between changes in the regulatory environment and strategies of private institutions to gain social legitimacy and competitiveness.