That shifts the debate back to two big questions: what is university for and what shape should university education take in the future?
In 1988 he got a degree in computer science at Tufts University--and met his future wife, Pamela, who came from Hawaii to get a degree in biology.
An article by Business Civic Leadership Center showed that 65 percent of university students expect to make a difference in future jobs and 58 percent would agree to a 15 percent pay-cut to do so.
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She went from Wausau to Stanford University, thinking that her future was in medicine.
Katherine Russell Tsarnaev was attending Suffolk University in Boston when friends introduced her to her future husband at a nightclub, DeLuca said.
When Prince William opted to study at the University of St Andrews in 2001, finding a future queen may not have been at the front of his mind.
However, perhaps the most imaginative advocate of the use of art in developing future business leaders is Nancy Adler, on the Desautels faculty of McGill University in Canada.
Professor Martin Price established the Centre for Mountain Studies (CMS) at UHI-Perth College (part of the future University of the Highlands and Islands) in 2000.
In a university setting, Alex and this other student, future co-founder Eric Wahlforss, were able to pursue various projects together.
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Alexander Mather of the University of Aberdeen predicted in 1992 that forest transition is the likely future of tropical countries, too.
The Fed has "removed the last shred of possibility that interest rates were going to revert to normal in the near future, " says Johns Hopkins University economics professor Christopher Carroll.
Though the new offering won't have a meaningful impact on revenue right away, Mr. Feierstein said he hopes University of Phoenix becomes a smaller share of overall earnings in the future.
She met her future husband in a puppetry class at the University of Maryland in the mid-1950s and the pair created the five-minute TV sketch show Sam and Friends, a precursor to the Muppets that featured an early incarnation of Kermit.
There are no entry requirements, the courses will not result in a qualification and completion does not count towards future university entrance.
The Crichton site in Dumfries faced an uncertain future three years ago when the University of Glasgow stopped undergraduate admissions.
And when the markets are up, a fund's returns don't necessarily tell you anything about how it will perform in the future, says Zheng Sun, a finance professor at the University of California, Irvine.
In her laboratory at the University of Washington, mathematician Kristin Rae Swanson peers into the future of brain cancer patients--on her computer screen.
The survey, carried out by the psychology department at the University of Bath, interviewed over 250 teenagers about how they saw scientists now and in the future.
The University of Wales, Newport, said if there were only six universities in Wales in the future, it "made sense" for one of them to be based in Gwent.
There still is a need for scientists and clinicians to speak a common language in order to carry out clinical research, and the role of the DSM in aiding this communication won't change in the near future, said Dianne Chambless, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies anxiety treatment.
James Vaupel, director of Duke University's Population Research Institute, is sceptical of the argument that obesity may reverse future progress in life expectancy.
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In 1997, I joined the faculty at the University of Florida and had the pleasure of educating future doctors and taking care of patients at the same time.
Bill Wakeham, the vice-chancellor of Southampton University, is encouraged by the changes, and believes the collaborative model can only become more relevant in the future.
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Dr. Bill Gray, a meteorologist from Colorado State University, said that many more hurricanes, like Andrew, would hit the U.S. mainland in the future.
Eight student political societies - including all the major parties - had invited undergraduate and postgraduate students to vote in what was billed as the first large-scale poll of Scottish university students on the country's future.
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