Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2021.2013267
Efficiency evaluation of graduation process in Australian public universities
Andrzej Szuwarzyński
Abstract
First-year attrition and on-time graduation are key challenges for
contemporary universities, which determine their efficiency. Based
on the benefit of the doubt approach, this study reports the efficiency of the graduation process in 37 Australian public universities. The super-efficiency model extended by restrictions on
virtual weights is used. The proposed model considers the attrition rate and the on-time graduation rate separately for domestic
and overseas students and other variables, like student-staff ratio,
the share of full-time students and the share of online students.
Some additional factors are included, such as the university’s affiliation with a grouping, the year of the university founding and
basic data on the subject mix of universities courses, explaining
the rankings created. The analysis indicates that research-oriented
universities achieve better results and overseas students perform
better than domestic ones. Also, it can be seen that the universities dealing with large-scale online learning are underperformed.
The obtained results allow all stakeholders to understand better
the efficiency of the graduation process. The main findings are
consistent with research published elsewhere.
Keywords
first-year attrition; on-time graduation; graduation process efficiency; the benefit of the doubt; data envelopment analysis
Hrčak ID:
302698
URI
Publication date:
31.3.2023.
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