Post-Covid-19 Higher Education Scenarios and Future Strategic Orientations of Education

The COVID19 epidemic profoundly influenced higher education. Online education started immediately after the onset of the epidemic, but professors and universities were unprepared for it. This crisis will have a great impact on higher education in the coming years, too. While the severity of the impact of the COVID19 crisis is still unknown, higher education institutions are figuring out the future of this industry and taking extraordinary steps to deal with future events. Four scenarios including growth , constraints , collapse , and transformation can be considered for the future of higher education, each having a strategic orientation as follows: 1) evolution (growth scenario): growth and development strategy; 2) alignment with changes (constraints scenario): heterogeneous diversity and strategy involvement; 3) failure of universities (collapse scenario): reduction, transfer, and dissolution; and 4) initiation of a major change (transformation scenario): market penetration strategy and horizontal integration.