International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering, 8(2): 131-145, December 2020 DOI: 10.30954/2322-0465.2.2020.6 ©2020 New Delhi Publishers. All rights reserved How to cite this article: Kayyali, M. (2020). Post COVID-19: New Era for Higher Education Systems. IJASE., 8(02): 131-145. Source of Support: None; Confict of Interest: None Post COVID-19: New Era for Higher Education Systems Mustafa Kayyali Azteca University, Mexico, North America Corresponding author: kayyali@heranking.com Received: 19 Sept., 2020 Revised: 13 Nov., 2020 Accepted: 02 Dec., 2020 ABSTRACT On November 17, 2019, according to several sources, the frst case of COVID-19 appeared in Wuhan, China, for a 55-year-old man. In addition to that, evolutionary estimates in genetic studies conducted in the early months of 2020 indicated that the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Virus most likely transfered to humans in the period between October 6 th , 2019 and December 11 th , 2019. The reason that led to the rapid spread of this epidemic is that its symptoms may not appear on the infected person in which, symptoms of the disease might not be shown before two weeks of the infection. The World Health Organization WHO recognized the spread of COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 11 th , 2020. In the frst period of the virus’s spread, specifcally in January and February of 2020, Italy, Iran, South Korea, Japan, and China reported increasing numbers of cases. Later that month, specifcally on the 26 th of February, the number of cases outside China rapidly exceeded the number of cases inside China, with the total number of cases reaching 2,790 distributed in 37 countries. During the next few days, the virus spread around the world at a steady speed, and there was no way or method to fnd a solution or treatment for its spread. COVID-19 had devastating effects on all living areas and on all industries, in which, it had shocking effects and frightening fgures related to the movement of the global economy and companies in a manner related to the repetition and duration of closures in addition to effects beyond description related to current and future effects in connection with the methodology of higher education, universities, and educational institutions, and the related future repercussions. COVID-19 causes many symptoms such as fever, dry cough, fatigue, headache, loss of the sense of smell and taste, it also causes diffculty breathing and nasal congestion. COVID-19 is an abbreviation for coronavirus disease of 2019. Throught out this paper, The virus is mentioned as Coronavirus, COVID, and COVID-19. Keywords: Higher education - universities - higher education institutions –accreditation - future - Coronavirus–COVID-19 - the future of higher education. In the past months, many studies related to the effect of COVID-19 on higher education institutions and operation were published and many seminers and meetings were addressing the virus [22]. This study Research Case Study APPLIED MANAGEMENT