ABSTRACT
An undergraduate degree from an elite university in a developed country provides access to membership of elites. The managers and leaders of national and international businesses, of government departments and national governments, of NGOs and of intergovernmental organizations are almost all drawn from the ranks of those who attended such universities. Many, if not, most, graduates of such universities can expect to command and consume far more resources than most of the world’s population, and to have asymmetric power and authority over others, many of whom live in other countries and on other continents. In an economy that is already highly globalized, and in which skilled elites are geographically highly mobile, it is more likely than ever that they will spend some portion of their lives in other countries than those in which they were raised.
