Perhaps if you had one global department teaching economics to millions of students worldwide in multiple locations in most countries in the world you might have a comparable organisation or computerisation project. You would have one syllabus, one exam process, one list of acceptable approaches to the subject, one set of lecture notes, one system for monitoring students etc... .please don't give THEM any ideas!

Um, I'm afraid this may be where we are heading with online education already . . .  Sure, there will remain the Harvard boutiques for the fortunate few and a small number of brilliant students every year, but everyone else will get their degrees from their local branch of "Bain" university easily accessed through the facebook ad on their desktop at home, from "instructors" making minimum wage, "course designers" making a little more, "deans" whipping everyone into shape, keeping the gravy train running on time for the "vice presidents," "chancellors," who will be taking home their HUGE profits, er "salaries."  Outsource the "library" to Google books, and the "tutoring" to 24/7 hotline operation in Bangalore (or whereever), and you've pretty much covered everything.  No need to keep the bathrooms clean or the lawns mowed.  You could even keep a virtual campus center or quad where students could gather electronically under the watchful eye of management.  In case of radical ideas or rebelliousness, students could be locked out at any time.  Same goes for the instructors.  Meanwhile, the Olde Time Professors will be hanging out behind the shrubs, should anyone care . . .