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Tiêu đề

Evaluating the efficiency of top liberal arts colleges

Tác giả

Eckles J.E.

Năm xuất bản

2010

Source title

Research in Higher Education

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1007/s11162-009-9157-4

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77952098297&doi=10.1007%2fs11162-009-9157-4&partnerID=40&md5=af884279930e0f581677a12d9c3ce068

Tóm tắt

This study applies a data envelopment analysis model developed for national universities to 93 national liberal arts colleges. Such models can be used by individual institutions for benchmarking purposes or by researchers seeking to compare the practices of highly efficient liberal arts colleges with the practices of relatively inefficient colleges. Six-year graduation rate is used as the output variable. Particular attention is paid to the construction of cost per undergraduate as an input variable. In addition to a ranking of the institutions according to their efficiency, between one and five of the 18 technically efficient peer institutions were identified as peers for each of the remaining 75 technically inefficient institutions. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Từ khóa

Assessment; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Liberal arts; Peer comparison; Production frontier

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