With this publication, the Tennessee Higher Education Commission presents its third study of instructional costs in the public colleges and universities in Tennessee. The basic unit of measurement used in the commisssion's instructional cost study is the student credit hour. Professional salaries, support salaries, operating expenses, and…

The relationship between the costs of central administration and academic teaching and research production was studied, based on a large sample of British universities and a separate analysis of the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. To determine variables important to central administration costs, a cross-sectional and intertemporal regression…