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<blockquote data-quote="Landifarne" data-source="post: 6759637" data-attributes="member: 6802264">I'd have to go and find the article again [written by a UCLA emritus professor of economics about 15 years ago] to answer whether the figure included administration costs. I don't think it did, and I believe UCLA had the lowest overall percentage spent upon undergraduate instruction. Having cycled through it, my alma mater always left a bad taste in my mouth, and, from what my students inform me, it hasn't changed much in that regard (felt like a number, just churned through...sink or swim).My friend was a principal researcher in biology, overlapping neuroscience. He did research for the DoD on echolocation in bats. Before all the grant money dried up, he stated that the sheer paperwork involved with grant writing and keeping in compliance with federal regulations/red tape took up 80% of his time. He had a good run doing cutting edge research for 20 years, but eventually gave it up to take a less stressful job (did maintain his pension, though, unlike all of the junior, non-tenured professors).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Landifarne, post: 6759637, member: 6802264"] I'd have to go and find the article again [written by a UCLA emritus professor of economics about 15 years ago] to answer whether the figure included administration costs. I don't think it did, and I believe UCLA had the lowest overall percentage spent upon undergraduate instruction. Having cycled through it, my alma mater always left a bad taste in my mouth, and, from what my students inform me, it hasn't changed much in that regard (felt like a number, just churned through...sink or swim). My friend was a principal researcher in biology, overlapping neuroscience. He did research for the DoD on echolocation in bats. Before all the grant money dried up, he stated that the sheer paperwork involved with grant writing and keeping in compliance with federal regulations/red tape took up 80% of his time. He had a good run doing cutting edge research for 20 years, but eventually gave it up to take a less stressful job (did maintain his pension, though, unlike all of the junior, non-tenured professors). [/QUOTE]

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