Unis are more suited to do this than most corporations. For example at school i am at 1. They already self host many apps in production. Including their own co

Unis are more suited to do this than most corporations. For example at school i am at 1. They already self host many apps in production. Including their own complex homegrown app that manages the school. All of the students have 30 gigs of “network drive” for their virtual computer. That means lot of the infra is already there - including unified oauth/ldap. 2. There are already experts there teaching programming/devops. So these people can both administer and teach. I wouldn't underestimate inhouse capabilities. 3. It is quite easy to get grants for infrastructure modernization. These funds wouldn't be possible to use on paying third party services. Overall I think its simply matter of costs and once googles/microsoft is not free they might not be the cheapest option anymore.