An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

This paper explores the issue of efficiency in English higher education using data envelopment analysis and stochastic … and research inputs and outputs) over a 13‐year period. The study compares the efficiency estimates derived from various … estimation methods, and uses the results to provide guidance to researchers, managers and policymakers on undertaking efficiency …

This paper reviews the most recent empirical literature that assesses efficiency in higher education. We analyze 76 … researchers interested in measuring efficiency, for policy makers and for other educational stakeholders …

compared to efficiency scores derived from a conventional DEA applied using each Economics department as a decision making unit …Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is applied to 2547 Economics graduates from UK Universities in 1993 in order to assess … teaching efficiency. Following a methodology developed by [Education Economics 10(2) (2002) 183-207], each individual 's …

This article investigates the efficiency of the university education using two linked databases (Saber Pro and Saber 11 … approach that combines the "order m" technique with the concept of a meta-frontier to disaggregate students' total efficiency … application of the technique of "order m" with the approach of the meta-frontier for the analysis of educational efficiency using …

techniques to estimate an output distance function over the period 1997/97 to 2007/08 in order to investigate the efficiency of … higher education institutions (HEIs) and to examine the opportunities for substitution between inputs. Mean efficiency across … institution in the highest efficiency quartile is closest to the pattern of production of the average pre-1992 university. The …