The provision of higher education by the private sector or the public sector differsfrom country to country. In countries such as the United States (USA), England, Japan,higher education is predominantly provided by the private sector, the public characterof higher education predominates in countries such as Norway, Sweden, Belgium andGermany. In this context, the paper tries to compare the development and financing ofthe higher education system in the USA and Germany, which are included in these twodifferent trends, in the framework of anarcho-liberalism and ordoliberalism conceptsconsidering that both countries come from different liberal traditions. In this framework,the study primarily addressed German ordoliberalism. Ordoliberalism sees the state asan important actor for the formation of market conditions. The state should make thenecessary interventions in areas such as education and population in order to providethe prerequisites for the market system, but this intervention should not contain aKeynesian form, it should only remove the barriers to marketization. One reason forthe central role given to the state is that ordoliberals see proletarianization as a threatto the system, so they aim to create corporate society. Within the framework of thisgoal, the state plays an important role in forming the company society. According tothe anarcho-liberal approach, everything outside the market area must be marketed.In this sense, the state itself is becoming a market. While the expansion of the marketsystem is the main goal in both approaches, the role given to the state in this process iswider in the ordoliberal approach. The study acted in this context that the differencesin the provision of higher education in the USA and Germany are different traditions ofthe state. The changing structure of university funding forms in Germany and the USAhas been handled from a historical perspective. Universities in Germany have publicorigins due to the East-West German tension. With the German industrialization goal,the dominant character of higher education has been public. Although the numberof private universities increased with the 1970 financial crisis of the state, the public weight of university education continued despite some transformations in its nature.In the USA, especially with the 1970 financial crisis of the state, the state has madethe university a tool of financialization process with various interventions. In theconclusion the study tried to establish the connections between the financing formof USA and German universities and the state approaches of anarcho-liberalism andordoliberalism. It was emphasized that it was only a result to link the differences inthe provision of higher education services to different state traditions, and the mainreason was the different forms of class struggle in the countries.