Merger is one of the strategic steps to gain competitive advantage in university development. Merger is a form of collaboration and synergy between one institution and another. The theme of the merger has also been discussed in articles published on Scopus or Google Scholar. This article does the mapping through the Harzing Publish or Perish and VOS Viewer applications using the keywords university merger and higher education merger. The collected data is filtered again with the specifications, namely; 1) publications in the form of scientific articles, 2) abstracts related to higher education mergers. Of the 200 articles on Scopus, 125 articles passed the screening. Of the 292 articles on Google Scholar, 131 articles passed the screening. Most mergers are associated with the impact of mergers on higher education institutions, strategic planning and decision making, government and higher education policies, as well as differences in industry characteristics and the character of universities that do not only pursue economic benefits.