The report concerns Croatia's policy to strengthen its non-university higher education provision and increase horizontal differentiation among its higher education institutions and study programmes. The report is one of the twelve case studies conducted within the “Structural Higher Education Reform – Design and Evaluation” project, commissioned by the European Commission (EAC/31/2014). The main objective of this project – carried out by the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS), University of Twente, the Netherlands, and the Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent (CHEGG), Ghent University, Belgium - was to investigate policy processes related to the design, implementation, and evaluation of structural reforms of higher education systems across Europe