¹University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Correspondence: J Scott, Department of Management Systems, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. E-mail: jls@waikato.ac.nz

^†This paper was originally submitted as a Viewpoint for the Special Issue on Teaching OR (JORS 51, December 2000).

Received September 1999; Accepted April 2001.

Abstract

What will education be like in the year 2025? With the OR community unlikely to be proactive in designing this future, the trends in higher education are likely to direct us. Therefore this viewpoint looks at macro trends and posits five principle elements of 2025 higher education. These provide both implications and opportunities for OR, particularly within corporate education.