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Today's universities have diversified further. Private universities that have a business-like or for profit model has been one prominent model developed recently. Intergovernmental and universities built by countries in foreign places have been created as a way to promote ideas or training that is similar to what one might obtain in the home countries. This has spread many similar concepts of universities world wide, where countries with very different cultures and traditions now have relatively similar ideas of universities. This has also become a way in which countries now see universities as a way to compete in the global marketplace, as they train their masses and develop their economic competitiveness.
What we seen then is that higher education changed conceptually from restricted academic institutions, to the foundation of universities, which proved to be similar to guilds in the Medieval period. It was only in the late Medieval and Early Modern era that universities began to spread more rapidly and in the 18th and 19th centuries century these institutions became more fully secular. By This secularization, and later acceptance of women, helped the masses to enroll in universities during the 19th century, the . The concept of mass education became established as industrialization became a key for countries' economic success and power.
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