I believe one of the major changes coming over the next decade will be how Americans approach a college education. This change will begin with college students (wisely) taking their first two years of core courses at a local or online school and then taking their major courses at a larger University. When this first step begins to gain traction, combined with someone out there who will revolutionize online learning, more students will begin to move their entire education away from the larger schools.
This will greatly reduce the cost of tuition at the larger universities and crush the interests that currently profit off the college bubble. For the reasons why this paradigm shift is coming, the following brief video walks through the details:
