The Relative Efficiencies of Canadian Universities

A DEA Perspective

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11967090
AutoresMelville L McMillan, Melville McMillan (autor correspondente), Debasish Datta
Ano1998
Volume24
Fascículo4
Páginas485-485
Data de publicação1998-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCanadian Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0317-0861 • E-ISSN: 1911-9917
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3552021
OpenAlexW2018802889
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas4

The results of using data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the relative efficiency of 45 Canadian universities are reported. Outcomes are obtained from nine different specifications of inputs and outputs. The relative efficiencies are quite consistent across the alternative specifications. A subset of universities - including universities from each of three categories (comprehensive with medical school, comprehensive without medical school, and primarily undergraduate) - are regularly found efficient and a subset quite inefficient but, overall and for most universities, the efficiency scores are relatively high. Simulation of the recent 20-percent cut in provincial grants to the Alberta universities illustrates how potential efficiency improvements (as implied and measured by this methodology) might be realized but it also illustrates certain limitations. Regression analysis is used in an effort to identify further determinants of efficiency. While there are limitations to the methodology and the available (especially output) measures which makes the specific efficiency outcomes tentative, this analysis provides insight to university productivity in Canada and its analysis

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