EFFICIENCY COMPARISON OF LARGE, MEDIUM AND SMALL UNIVERSITIES IN PAKISTAN: AN APPLICATION OF DEA

Abstract

Performance measurement and efficiency analysis in the non-profit organizations
especially in higher education sector, leads to the economic and socio-political growth
of nations. This paper conducts an application of data envelopment analysis (DEA)
technique to access the mean efficiencies of large, medium and small universities in
Pakistan for the year 2009/10. Output-orientation for CCR (Charnes, Cooper &
Rhodes) and BCC (Banker, Charnes & Cooper) models is used for comparison.
Efficiency comparison results suggest that medium universities in Pakistan are working
more efficiently than the large and small ones. Moreover, performance of large
universities needs to improve, as pool of large universities consists of public sector with
performing more inefficiently than the medium and small higher education institutions
(HEIs.)