TITLE:
Research on the Efficiency of China’s Higher Education System Based on the Three-Stage DEA Model
AUTHORS:
Xiao Shi, Qin Luo, Yan Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Higher Education System, Three-Stage DEA Model, Efficiency
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.12 No.5,
May
31,
2024
ABSTRACT: With the development of China’s higher education shifts from the total contradiction to the structural contradiction, it is important to evaluate and improve the efficiency of the higher education system. Based on the three-stage DEA model, we take the higher education system of 31 provinces across the country as the research object, use the data from 2014 to 2018 to evaluate the efficiency of China’s higher education system, and obtain the comprehensive efficiency, pure technical efficiency, as well as scale efficiency. Secondly, we analyze the slack variables of the input indicators, remove the influence of environmental factors and random interference, and get the slack variables that are only affected by the management inefficiency. Finally, by combining slack variables, suggestions for improvement from various efficiency perspectives and regional distribution perspectives are proposed. The paper aims to help solve the problems of unreasonable regional allocation of higher education resources and low resource management efficiency, and promote the development of higher education from quantitative to structural transformation.