Determining Teaching and Research Efficiencies

Abstract

In this paper we consider the problem of determining teaching and research efficiencies for university departments concerned with the same discipline. Considering this problem highlights the issue of how to determine efficiencies when resources are shared between different activities, and a non-linear approach to this issue based upon data envelopment analysis is presented. Computational results are given for chemistry and physics departments in the United Kingdom.

Keywords:

• data envelopment analysis
• efficiency
• universities