This article having as analytical reference the reciprocal relationship between globalization and higher education, aims to approach some changes that are taking place in higher education in contemporary societies. Supported by a pertinent literature to the subject, the article pointed out that in the context of globalization, higher education is not confined more within the national societies, but overflows beyond its borders. The article indicates the emergence of certain events that occurred in recent decades leading higher education to work in a transnational space. The information provided by article tend to indicate that in contemporary societies higher education is acquiring an increasingly relational dimension, so that universities and their respective countries are constantly comparing yourself and competing with each other in search of the academic prestige in the international context of higher education.
Deterritorialization of higher education; International academic mobility; International rankings; World class university