The most significant trend in global higher education since the second World War has been massification, the dramatic increases in enrollments around the world. While massification has meant greater access and opportunity, expanded enrollments have strained education budgets and existing infrastructure, outpaced the preparation of academic personnel, and filled classrooms with a flood of new students with huge variation in prior preparation. This essay addresses the key trends that will shape the coming decades--the continuing internationalization of knowledge and the role of "global English," the commercialization of higher education, and the continued growth and importance of the private sector.