University. Four years of instruction and one certificate of sorting.
It is an institution or public programme.
It exists to relieve Acquire a credential that employers will accept. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without University system. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
Solving that problem created new ones: The credential costs more than the student has. Follow those and you find the next generation of products built on top of this one.
2 organisations in this map sell it, 1 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionUniversity
- FrictionAcquire a credential that employers will accept
- Life phaseEarly adulthood
- Rooted inStatus
- Rooted inUncertainty
Relieves
Created these new problems
Second-order frictions. This is where most of the modern economy actually lives.
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Canyon Education | $5B | public · LOPE | online university services |
| Harvard Business School | nonprofit | MBA, executive education |