The efficiency of Australian universities: a data envelopment analysis

With participation in higher education amongst young people rising, governments around the world have been faced with increasing pressure on their finances, giving rise to the need to operate universities with a higher degree of efficiency. In this paper, non-parametric techniques are used to estima...

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Published inEconomics of education review Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 89 - 97
Main Authors Abbott, Malcolm, Doucouliagos, Chris
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier India Pvt Ltd 2003
Elsevier
SeriesEconomics of Education Review
Subjects
Australia
Australien
Cost effectiveness
Data envelopment analysis
Educational economics
Efficiency
Effizienz
Foreign Countries
Forschung
Higher education
Hochschule
Input Output Analysis
Lehre
Messverfahren
Scale efficiency
Technical efficiency
Universities
Vergleich
Australia
Scale efficiency
Efficiency
Technical efficiency
I21
J45
Educational economics
I28
Data envelopment analysis
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Summary:With participation in higher education amongst young people rising, governments around the world have been faced with increasing pressure on their finances, giving rise to the need to operate universities with a higher degree of efficiency. In this paper, non-parametric techniques are used to estimate technical and scale efficiency of individual Australian universities. Various measures of output and inputs are used. The results show that regardless of the output-input mix, Australian universities as a whole recorded high levels of efficiency relative to each other. (DIPF/Orig)
Bibliography:Refereed article. Includes bibliographical references.
Economics of Education Review; v.22 n.1 p.89-97; February 2003
ISSN:0272-7757
1873-7382
DOI:10.1016/S0272-7757(01)00068-1