ABSTRACT
This chapter evaluates how different ways of organizing academic work influence what this work accomplishes. The index of college completion or low dropout rates is the number of students who received their college degree in an institution in 1967 divided by total number of its undergraduates. The factor that has the strongest effect on the educational progress of undergraduates is the proportion of graduate students in the academic institution. The stimulating academic atmosphere in a university with many graduate students benefits the education of undergraduates. A practical implication of this finding is that it would be detrimental for undergraduate education to separate it from graduate education and research in universities and consign it exclusively to undergraduate colleges, as is sometimes recommended. Bureaucratization is an impediment to education, which shows that stereotypes are not always wrong, although much of the time they are.
