Evaluating the Network Performance of Islamic Azad University of Guilan Branches Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Nowadays universities in the entire world are the origin of innovative ideas and thoughts. Therefore, many scientific, cultural, social, and political developments are stemmed from them. Universities like any other organizations require performance evaluation and measurement in order to use their limited resources optimally and have more efficiency. Since the nature of a university is the type that attracts students and eventually produces science and related graduates, the more additional entries a university has such as the number of students, faculties, educational space and so on, the more outputs such as number of articles, graduates and so on is expected from it. In this research, performance evaluation of Islamic Azad University of Guilan branches which include 15 university branches was evaluated in terms of education and research components, and the whole system was studied through using data envelopment analysis techniques. The efficiency of these branches for the educational year 1393 has been evaluated and discussions have been provided to increase productivity of the branches, and the possibility of similar follow-up researches has been presented.