ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS EFFICIENCY VIA DEA

This paper presents a case study where academic departments at Ben-Gur ion University were evaluated via the Data Envelopment Analysis using the CCR model. Extensive post analyses were performed in several direc tions. First various sets of data were used to identify efficient and inefficient departments. New efficiency measures are suggested in rela tion to the reference set included in the analyses of academic departm ents. We measured the efficiency of departments to other departments w ithin the same school. We applied cluster analyses to divide the depar tments into several sets; and the discriminant analysis to test the ma tch of the efficiency/inefficiency division of the CCR ratio. We furth er tested organizational changes where an inefficient department was c losed and joins other departments. Finally we compared the CCR model t o the pure economic approach--the cost per student ratio.