Greece’s severe economic crisis has been adversely affecting the country as a whole. One response to economic strain, unemployment and the lack of prospects has been the resumption of emigration, which has been expounding significantly. This is not dissimilar with the situation among other crisis-ridden countries too. The crisis’s most adverse impact is also reflected in Greece’s higher education. Specifically, the crisis has encroached and upset the market situation of both university teaching staff and Master and PhD holders to such a measure that it has come to operate as a potent push factor for an intensified brain drain. Indeed, the ongoing migratory exodus is directed primarily, but not exclusively, to Western EU countries, and operates as a survival mechanism. It affects the highly educated or trained, which are the new and potent element when compared with earlier episodes of emigration, although it is not solely limited to them. Even so, the assets that the highly educated actors mobilized in leaving the country and their numerical preponderance point to a middle-class social background. In fact, the resumption of the brain drain from Greece may also be seen as a pre-eminently middle-class social response to the crisis.