Abstract:

Estimates of the efficiency of higher education institutions have become a central field of research in the literature of efficiency analysis, especially in the last two decades. In Turkey the number of studies on the efficiency of higher education institutions have increased in this period. Almost all of the efficiency measurements of the efficiency of higher education institutions in Turkey are made using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method higher education institutions in Turkey are seen to be done by the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is a non-parametric technique. The use of Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), which is a parametric method of efficiency, is quite restricted, though. This study examines the cost efficiency of 91 state and 25 foundation universities operating in Turkey for 5 years covering 2010-2011 and 2014-2015 by using SFA method unlike DEA. The analysis has been performed using the Cobb-Douglass cost function form. The SFA estimation rults show that the performance of higher education institutions is quite scattered from 50% to 90%.

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