the undergraduate seniors of our department know they can come back right away as grad students after they graduate, our professors don't care about departmentcest
an academic department practices departmentcest when they disproportionately accepting graduate students from the pool of their own recent undergraduates, rather than selecting from undergraduates of other schools
"the undergraduate seniors of our department know they can come back right away as grad students after they graduate, our professors don't care about departmentcest" What is the definition of "departmentcest"?