We have set about such an exercise for the higher education sector by starting with the question: “will there be a need for university campuses in the future?” While it might initially seem an outlandish question, when the soaring costs of debt and equity for investors and operators are weighed against dwindling revenues and diminishing availability for financial support, along with increasing concern about graduate debt, the need to answer this question becomes ever more important. The past year saw the world’s first “borderless” university launch at a time when value of peer-to-peer engagement is being challenged to its core. And despite yet to turn out to be the revolution they were deemed, massive open online course (MOOC) providers are becoming ever significant key partners to many of the world’s top universities who start to work collaboratively towards embedded.