Network DEA: an application to analysis of academic performance

Subject Areas : Mathematical Optimization

Mohammad Ali Saniee Monfared ¹ , Mahsa Safi ²

1 - School of Engineering, Alzahra University, Tehran, 1993891176, Iran
2 - Department of Industrial Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, 19967-15433, Iran

Received: 2020-10-02 Accepted : 2020-10-02 Published : 2013-12-01

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis, Network DEA, Performance Indicators, Academic efficiency,

Abstract :

As governmental subsidies to universities are declining in recent years, sustaining excellence in academic performance and more efficient use of resources have become important issues for university stakeholders. To assess the academic performances and the utilization of the resources, two important issues need to be addressed, i.e., a capable methodology and a set of good performance indicators as we consider in this paper. In this paper, we propose a set of performance indicators to enable efficiency analysis of academic activities and apply a novel network DEA structure to account for subfunctional efficiencies such as teaching quality, research productivity, as well as the overall efficiency. We tested our approach on the efficiency analysis of academic colleges at Alzahra University in Iran.