On the Science and Research Efficiency of Czech Universities: A Data Envelopment Analysis
On the Science and Research Efficiency of Czech Universities: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The quality of higher education depends on the quality of scientific research of their employees. University scientific research and education are inseparable. Rating of their level is currently the subject of many scientific and expert discussions. At the present time, there is a prevailing pressure to create a categorization of universities on the basis of their scientific performance, which should translate also in the process of distribution of state subsidies for universities. In order to stop the process of stagnation in the quality of higher education it is necessary to identify the barriers to its growth as soon as possible and propose solutions for their elimination. For this reason, questions of objective and independent evaluation of the quality through multidimensional economic analysis are nowadays being brought more and more into focus. It was the ambition of our research. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of science and research at universities in the Czech Republic to find out the real state as well as the suitability of the applied method chosen for the evaluation process. We run Data Envelopment Analysis on data on faculty level. Our findings suggest, that efficiency level of faculties in global view is fair enough, but place for improvement still exists. Our analysis shows that 53% of the faculties in the Czech Republic operate on efficient way in term of Science and Research. Most equilibrated groups in term of efficiency is group of Engineering, followed by group of Architecture, group of Psychology and group of Informatics. Least equilibrated groups are group of Economics, group of Sociology and group of Law.

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