Trends 2024: European Higher Education Institutions in Times of Transition

Overview & Synopsis

For the European higher education sector, the past five years have seen many changes and transformations, some gradual, others more drastic and disruptive. In the ninth edition of the European University Association's long-running series, Trends 2024 provides an overview of how European higher education institutions experienced changes over the past five years, due to higher education reforms, and in the wider context of societal, political, economic and technological changes, marked among others by the implications of COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's war against Ukraine. The report also sheds light on how higher education institutions see their future direction. Based on survey responses from 489 higher education institutions in 46 European higher education systems, Trends 2024 analyses the institutions' perspectives and strategies with regard to their multiple missions. It focuses on the education mission, changes in the student body and the education offer, learning and teaching enhancement, the rise of non-degree education, and developments in mobility and internationalisation.