Higher-ed Mergers Are Trending in the Philadelphia Region, A Lifeline for an Industry ‘Not Particularly Good at Strategy’

The Philly area is home to some of the nation’s biggest and richest universities, but also well known for its panoply of smaller, specialized schools. The latter are increasingly being swallowed up by the former in a notable spate of higher education mergers. At least seven different schools in the region have announced or consummated mergers in the past six years. From the perspective of administrators, this makes sense.