Providing a model based on input efficiency profile model to evaluate the performance quality of higher education centers

Higher education centers are the axis of the sustainable social, economic, political, cultural, and scientific development of human societies; as a result, their efficiency evaluation has attracted a lot of attention at the international level. Data envelopment analysis models (DEA) are one of the most successful, efficient and practical efficiency measurement techniques due to their special features and advantages. DEA models, in addition to measuring relative efficiency, are also able to provide the necessary planning to improve efficiency. Hence, so far, a lot of research has used DEA models to measure the efficiency of higher education centers. In this study, in order to measure the quality of performance of higher education centers, one of the DEA models called Input efficiency profiling model (IEP) has been used, as well. The proposed model is a new evaluation model called Improved input efficiency profiling – Super efficiency model (IIEP – SE), which has improved the performance of IEP model by addressing some of its shortcomings. It has been shown by a numerical example and comparing the proposed model with other DEA models that the proposed model has necessary reliability and desirable performance. In order to plan for achieving the efficiency of the inefficient units, pattern and reference units and the amount of necessary change in the input and output criteria for each of the inefficient units have also been determined.