Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Improve Estimates of Higher Education Institution’s Per‐student Education CostsFootnote¹

1. An earlier draft of this paper was presented in September 2003 at the 16th Annual Consortium of Higher Education Researchers Conference in Porto, Portugal.

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