Apple:

This school year, tens of thousands of students will be able to use mobile student IDs on iPhone and Apple Watch to get around campus and make purchases. For the first time, mobile student IDs can be added to the Wallet app in Canada, starting with the University of New Brunswick and Sheridan College this year. In the US, new schools to adopt mobile student IDs include Auburn University, Northern Arizona University, University of Maine, New Mexico State University, and many more colleges across the country.

And:

In April 2021, for the first time since launching mobile student IDs in Wallet, students used their mobile IDs to make purchases and access campus buildings more than they used plastic ID cards. This fall, the University of Alabama will be the first school to exclusively issue mobile student IDs to their 38,000 students with eligible devices.

It was not so long ago that major colleges and universities were using a student’s social security number (in the US) as their actual student ID.

Moving the student ID to a student’s iPhone and Apple Watch is a huge step forward, both in convenience and in security. Will there come a day when we can use our iPhone Wallet as an airline ID (I think so)? To vote in an election?