University education around the world is undergoing tectonic shifts by being more and more dependent on the Internet. Data given below illustrate the incredible impacts of the Internet on higher education. Such trends will even continue to expand more and more in the near future especially with consideration that ICT will not only mean communication between individuals and humans but would expand connecting machines to each others and to humans as well. With the expansion of modern ICT technology in terms of solutions, applications, infra-structures and architecture students would not need to be physically available on the campus as much as before. On-line services will continue to expand in terms of content and quality. However, it is not clear how ICT will influence the over-all economic costs of the educational services.
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