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Technical efficiency of business administration courses: a simultaneous analysis using DEA and SFA
Author(s) -
Miranda Rodrigo,
Gramani Maria Cristina,
Andrade Eduardo
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international transactions in operational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.032
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1475-3995
pISSN - 0969-6016
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-3995.2012.00857.x
Subject(s) - data envelopment analysis , stochastic frontier analysis , higher education , frontier , profit (economics) , economics , business , computer science , political science , microeconomics , economic growth , mathematics , statistics , production (economics) , law
The aim of this study is to contribute to the existing literature on the efficiency of higher education institutions. The technical efficiency of higher education has been mostly studied using methods such as data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis. Many researchers compare either the efficiency among public education institutions or among departments in a university by using variables that give equal importance to teaching and research. In this paper, both these methodologies are applied to measure the efficiency of higher education courses, especially the business administration courses offered by private for‐profit institutions that focus just on education and are located in the same geographical region. The variables selected covered the specific aspects of these courses and the results showed the complementarities of these two approaches.