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The disruption era that leads to the awareness of higher education to cope with Industry 4.0, affected by rapid technology development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), Automation, and IT based technology, is now becoming new pathway for many higher education institutions (HEI). Higher education institutions try to adapt and or adopt their curricula in order to align with industry 4.0. It is the nature of higher education that operate in Teaching, Research, as well as Community Service that need to adapt with the fast changing of its strategic environment. The question is for how long the era of disruption will last, and what the forthcoming era that higher education must prepare. This is important for HEI in order to ensure sustainability of the strategy especially when strategic environment change rapidly. This paper will elaborate to new predicted era, the so-called Era of Abundance, that will be faced after the era of disruption. Before elaborating the “abundance”, it is important to elaborate the comprehensive strategy due to “disruption” in HEI, the so called Education 4.0, especially in aligning with Industry 4.0. This paper will also elaborate the what-is of the era of abundance so that by having understanding of this era, higher education can take the advantage of time. This paper uses method of descriptive analysis based on expert opinion to elaborate and to draw the conclusion.