Administrative intensity and institutional control in higher education

This paper formulates a model to partition the observed administrative/facu lty ratio (or administrative intensity) for higher education institutions i nto two components. One component uses internal factors. The second compone nt acts as an augmenter and uses external factors. In particular, it uses s ources of funding dependency to explain additionally the demand for adminis trative resources. A legit analysis is used to link the type of institution al control to sources of funding dependency. The main results indicate that public institutions use relatively less administrative resources compared to privates in seeking public and private sources of funding. Privates, on the other hand, use relatively less when seeking private funding, but they use relatively more when seeking public funding. Policy implications relate to barriers of entry to the funding sources.