Purpose – Knowledge Management, in the context of education, is an interesting and debated issue for institutional actors (The Bologna Process, EU, 1999; EC, 2003; EC, 2013) scholars and researchers. (Esposito et al., 2013; Ramirez et al., 2007; D’Este and Patel, 2007). This paper aims to present a literature review related to Knowledge Management in an educational context. The purpose, in particular, is to investigate how researchers and practitioners have developed their research and what are the next Knowledge Management trends in the academic environment. Design/methodology/approach – The literature review focused on the analysis of three journals: Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Intellectual Capital, and Academy of Management Learning and Education. These journals have been selected in an international ranking on the portal SCImago Journal & Country Rank. The research was carried out based on three specific steps: a first selection process based on keywords on the websites of the three journals; in the second step we have analyzed the contents of the abstracts of individual articles, to identify those most related to KM in Universities; in the third phase we collected the articles relevant to our investigation, in order to examine in detail the content and to make a classification. Originality/value – The article aims to provide a literature review related to the topic of Knowledge Mangement in the educational context, identifying future trends both from a theoretical or empirical side. Practical implications – This research at the moment is a second step of a larger work that will involve the analysis of other journals. The research, currently, is still a work in progress, and it requires new investigations. The analysis will be extended including other journals and the most relevant references found in the papers. The selection and the deepening of the above items, specially classified, based on the model of Earl (2001), made it possible to see that the survey on Knowledge Management, as part of the education sector, is focusing on the basis of data currently collected, to the following directions: the use of information technology or management; for business purposes, and the adoption of organizational methods to create, share and use knowledge.