Title: Efficiency and its affecting factors in the faculties of Urmia University of Medical Sciences: DEA approach and Tobit regression

Authors: Bahram Nabilou; Hassan Khorsandi; Ali Reza Chavshin; Aram Feizi; Hasan Yusefzadeh

Addresses: Department of Health Economics and Management, School of Health, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran ' Department of Environmental Health, School of Health, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran ' Department of Medical Entomology, School of Health, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran ' School of Nursing and Midwifery, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran ' Department of Health Economics and Management, School of Health, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran

Abstract: Evaluating the performance of universities has a major effect on improving the quality of the university. This study aimed to investigate the performance and efficiency of the faculties of Urmia University of Medical Sciences and its effective factors in the education and research sectors. The average technical efficiency of the studied faculties in the research and education sectors were 0.71 and 0.6, respectively. According to the Tobit model, the highest contribution and importance in the efficiency of faculties among the input and output variables of the research and education were identified. Increasing the efficiency of faculties in the fields of education and research indicates the use of new educational technologies by faculties and the use of experienced and motivated professors. The results can be used as a framework to connect the performance indicators and efficiency of faculties with their budgets.

Keywords: data envelopment analysis; DEA; technical efficiency; faculty; education; research.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEED.2023.132000

International Journal of Education Economics and Development, 2023 Vol.14 No.3, pp.357 - 369

Received: 10 Feb 2022
Accepted: 07 Jun 2022
Published online: 06 Jul 2023 *

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