When Mauritius became independent in 1968, there was one national university: The University of Mauritius. After nearly fifty years of independence, the higher education landscape has expanded significantly to include some 65 tertiary education institutions (TEIs), 10 of which are publicly-funded. This expansion in the tertiary education sector reveals the impressive progress achieved in the young independent state that Mauritius is, but in a globalised and competitive world, this expansion has started to face challenges and will continue to do so.