Abstract:

With globalization, a new era has begun in the world where knowledge and technology dominate. Knowledge has become "power". Therefore, the demand for higher education, which is the home of knowledge and science, has increased in the current period. New investments are made in universities to meet the demand. Performance evaluation in higher education is important in determining how effectively investments are used. In this context, this study aims to measure efficiency in higher education by using indicators for both academic performance and education in OECD countries selected by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based on 2015. Within the scope of the efficiency analysis carried out for this purpose, 25 OECD countries for academic performance and 24 and 25 OECD countries with two different data sets for education have been determined as decision-making units that use similar inputs and produce outputs. In the analysis, potential improvement rates of inefficiency decision-making units (DMU) in terms of output variables have been calculated together with efficiency values. In this study, according to the results obtained from the analysis of the academic performance and educational efficiency, Turkey is among the countries with the lowest efficiency. Efficient countries in all three analyzes are Finland, Ireland and Slovenia.

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