Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method for Higher Education

The higher education system in India is changing at an unprecedented rate. Having an effective system for evaluating the quality is an essential key to realizing the goals of education. The adoption of the fuzzy formalism is a possible solution to the standardization in the domain of quality of education. In this paper, an analytical tool has been developed to find the important attributes which should be present in higher academic institutions for quality assurance. It uses fuzzy set principles to represent the imprecise concepts for subjective judgement and applies a Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) with extent analysis to determine the assessment criteria and their corresponding weights. A questionnaire was prepared for pair-wise comparison of the attributes and reviews were taken from the students, faculty and experts from industry. Triangular fuzzy numbers produced from the experts’ view of the questionnaires are used for pair-wise comparison matrices.