Determining the relative efficiency of the fourteen universities of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education using data envelopment analysis.

摘要

The fourteen universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) are allocated performance funding based on eight measures (Degrees Awarded, Second Year Persistence Rate, Graduation Rate, Faculty Productivity, Employee Diversity, Personnel Ratio, Instructional Cost, and Faculty Terminal Degrees). Within each measure, universities are compared to their own baseline, to industry averages, and to targets set by management. In the 2005/2006 academic year,