The article looks at the challenges faced by the higher education industry post-COVID-19. The paper focuses on the changes adopted in teaching pedagogy due to the pandemic situation across the world. Teaching has always been the first and foremost ground to making society a socially interactive place but because of the spread of COVID-19, social interactions have come to cease. This is the foremost challenge faced by the entire higher education industry. To combat this challenge, mindset is being changed and a learning mindset is being developed by the learners. The article ends by considering the challenges faced by the students during the pandemic. It concludes that, although the new environment will test the resilience of the students to its limits, it will develop a new learning dimension in the higher education industry.