The current globalization of higher education creates both challenges and opportunities. Educational goals are seen to be an area of great concern in the era of globalization. It is here that universities play a crucially important role, to create a better society. They must engage with the issues of globalization, both theoretically as analysts and researchers, and practically as academic workers involved in an increasingly globalized enterprise.

The likelihood of entry of foreign universities into Cote D’ivoire is an inevitable consequence of globalization. Top-class foreign universities are anticipated to add prestige to Cote D’ivoire’s higher education. The expectation is that foreign universities will bring much-needed capacity and new ideas on higher education management, curriculum, teaching methods, and research, together with investment, and profit from the vast intellectual resources of the country.

Future Outlook

The long-term outlook of the education sector in Cote D’ivoire is favourable on expectation of increasing requirement of knowledge-based industries for specialised skill sets, increase in per capita consumption, high enrolment ratio, offering of various courses, and Government support in terms of Fee Reimbursement Scheme, flexibility in curriculum, and innovation fund for secondary education.

With online modes of education being used by several educational organizations, the higher education sector in Cote D’ivoire is set for some major changes and developments in the years to come. Encouraging Ivoirian students to study their higher education in India through the government support.