Why not look at the outstanding public universities like Berkeley, UCLA, Wisconsin and Michigan as possible models?
The organization of graduate education in these places stands in striking contrast to that of Stanford, MIT, Pennsylvania, and Chicago. All of these private and public great universities have exceptional graduate programs. Why the enormous difference in how they are organized to deliver graduate education? Private research universities generally have from two to three – sometime four – times the number of post baccalaureate students as undergraduates. The culture of graduate education and research permeates the entire campus. The incentive system compatible with that culture leads naturally to behavior that strengthens and invigorates graduate (and professional) education and research. Chicago was founded as primarily a graduate university. Undergraduate fields grew from graduate programs. MIT after the Second World War greatly expanded graduate education compared to undergraduate. Neither place has inter-collegiate athletics which in public institutions is one of the features that pro
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