The purpose of this paper is to quantify the efficiency with which Australian universities utilise their teaching resources. The study estimates the cost efficiency of 36 universities over the period 1995-2002 using stochastic frontier analysis. The present study differs from previous cost and efficiency studies of Australian universities in two respects. First, it employs stochastic frontier a...

Improving operating efficiency is one objective of internal controls (IC). This paper investigates the relationship between IC implementation and operating efficiency of universities. Using data from questionnaire survey and from the field, this study measures IC implementation and applies data envelopment analysis to estimate operating efficiency of 99 universities in Taiwan. The results indic...

performance evaluation of universities is an important issue between researchers. classic data envelopment analysis (dea) models with deterministic data have been used by many authors to measure efficiency of universities in different countries. however, dea with stochastic data are, rarely used to measure efficiency of universities. in this paper, input oriented model in stochastic data envelo...

Various studies have been carried out on estimation of cost functions for Australian universities, for example, Throsby (1986) and Heaton and Throsby (1997, 1998), and Lloyd et al (1993). While estimating a cost function with different purposes, all of the studies have estimated an aggregate cost function in the sense that the sampled institutions were assumed to have the same cost function. Th...

This research is interested in studying the internal and external efficiency of the universities in Saudi Arabia. Analysis and make sure levels and extract future trends, and to respond to domestic and international variables. = These efficiencies include important dimensions one specializes the ability of the university to conduct. Its functions with high efficiency internal efficiency -other ...

Understanding how teaching and research contribute to the overall efficiency of university operations is of great importance for universities to improve their performance. This paper adopts a holistic approach to evaluate the university efficiency from three perspectives including (a) the overall university operations efficiency, (b) the university teaching efficiency, and (c) the university re...

Abstract While the evaluation of university efficiency has become commonplace in developed countries, exercises this kind have rarely been conducted context developing economies. We use frontier methods to analyse determinants costs higher education institutions India. Results obtained using standard stochastic model are compared with those from a latent class cost model. Average incremental co...

Evaluating the efficiency of decision making units has been frequently elaborated on in numerous publications. In this paper, the theoretical framework for a novel method of Distance Based Analysis (DBA) is presented. In addition, the method is performed on a sample of the ARWU’s top 54 Universities of the United States; the findings of which clearly demonstrate that the best ranked Universitie...

Using data envelopment analysis (DEA) this study attempts to measure the relative efficiency of Turkish universities with regard to the implementation of quality management practices. A set of 9 critical quality management factors for Turkish universities are identified and used as input parameters for the efficiency model. In addition, a number of performance indicators are determined as the o...