The coming disruption to higher education

Nice article on the future of higher ed and how Covid-19 is going to accelerate the disruption of this ‘business’. He predicts that the “branded / elite” universities will tie up with the tech giants to broaden the student base, but the “run of the mill” colleges will have a really hard time surviving.

In ten years, it’s feasible to think that MIT doesn’t welcome 1,000 freshmen to campus; it welcomes 10,000. What that means is the top-20 universities globally are going to become even stronger. What it also means is that universities Nos. 20 to 50 are fine. But Nos. 50 to 1,000 go out of business or become a shadow of themselves. I don’t want to say that education is going to be reinvented, but it’s going to be dramatically different.

Why pay attention to this? Apparently this is the same guy who predicted that Amazon would buy Whole Foods and predicted the collapse of WeWork.