This paper provides an extensive overview of the literature on efficiency in education. It
summarizes the earlier applied inputs, outputs and contextual variables, as well as the used …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Despite measures on the European level to increase the compatibility between the higher
education sectors, the recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain …

Background: Increasing the number of students in universities, simultaneously limiting
allocation of funds to them, and maintaining the highest efficiency level in education and …

This article addresses a category of multi-criteria ranking problems in which performance
evaluations of the 'objects' or 'alternatives' to be ranked are not given by unique numbers but …

This paper estimates technical efficiency scores across the community college sector in the
United States. Using stochastic frontier analysis and data from the Integrated Postsecondary …

In this chapter, we present a methodology of decision aiding that helps to build a ranking of
a finite set of alternatives evaluated by a family of hierarchically structured criteria. The …

En Colombia se han implementado métodos para medir la eficacia de las instituciones de
educación media; por ello en este artículo se busca establecer la eficiencia de estas …

The level of efficiency regarding the production of published scientific research in 2015 for
the 48 state universities of the Spanish education system is assessed. It is used a …

The aim of this study is to present the general trend and direction of the research, both in
terms of content and methodology, from a critical point of view by examining the studies on …