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<p>Hmm…MIT students butt heads with admins a lot. That’s normal. But that’s not the same question as how smoothly the bureaucracy functions.</p>
<p>I can tell you that compared to where I am now for grad stuff (a place which I like on many other counts), the MIT bureaucracy is heaven on earth. And it’s better than other places where I’ve taken individual classes.</p>
<p>My boyfriend has been a student, worked at, or otherwise been affiliated with some half a dozen universities of various types. He says that MIT has the smoothest bureaucracy he’s seen, hands-down.</p>
<p>Now, as far as admins go…yeah, like I said, students butt heads with them. But one of the reasons for this is that policy toward students has historically been pretty <em>good</em>, and students fight to keep it that way. Compare the MIT administration and its policies with, say, the BU administration, which is right across the river, and its policies. There is just no contest.</p>