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 …

developed by Thanassoulis and Portela (2002; Education Economics, 10(2), pp. 183-207) allows each individual's DEA efficiency … data were also used to perform a university-level DEA. The university efficiency scores derived from these DEAs are largely …Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and multilevel modelling (MLM) are applied to a data set of 54,564 graduates from UK …

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 …