چکیده:
Due to the shortage of specialized personnel during a certain period, many universities expanded without regard to the quality level of society, which led to a decline in quality and a mismatch between the number of graduates and societal needs. Today, these shortages have been addressed, and the need for quantity has given way to increasing academic quality. In the present research, an attempt has been made to evaluate and analyze the status of the country's large public universities using an appropriate method based on the latest available information. This study was conducted using efficiency and productivity indicators of educational and research units of 20 mother universities across all academic levels and measuring the factors affecting them. The results showed that the efficiency of universities in the education sector is higher than in the research sector, while the productivity growth trend of the research sector is positive and the education sector is negative. Under identical conditions, most universities are relatively inefficient, and only Shahid Beheshti and Tehran universities are efficient in the education and research sectors compared to other universities; other universities do not have balanced growth, and adopting strategic planning management and creating a competitive environment to improve university productivity is necessary.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Keywords: Efficiency, Productivity, Data Envelopment Analysis, Malmquist Index, Public Universities Introduction Higher education takes place beyond the school level in colleges and other related institutions, and a university is an institution that aims to promote and advance knowledge and train human resources in various fields of science and technology by providing higher education and conducting research, and according to the regulations of the Expansion Council, it must consist of at least three faculties.
Some of the necessities of examining the total productivity of universities, which is the goal of this study, include measuring the level of efficiency and productivity of universities and their changes using appropriate indicators and methods for their control, monitoring, and evaluation; describing the educational and research status of universities to create a basis for competition; using the results of comprehensive evaluation in decision-making and university planning for optimal resource allocation; determining the extent of progress, regression, and changes occurred in the total productivity of universities; and identifying the problems and bottlenecks of universities categorized by educational and research missions, and providing practical solutions.
Tavakkoli Moghaddam, Sadegh, Amal Nik, & Rafati (2004) introduced the Data Envelopment Analysis method as the most suitable model for evaluating research centers due to reasons such as the existence of intangible inputs and outputs and their quantitative and qualitative nature, and measured the efficiency of five engineering departments for three years in three consecutive periods.
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