Resumo

ALCARAZ-OCHOA, Daniela  e  BERNAL-DOMINGUEZ, Deyanira. Technical efficiency evaluation in Public State Universities (UPE) of the Mexico´s northwest through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Nova scientia [online]. 2017, vol.9, n.19, pp.393-410. ISSN 2007-0705.  https://doi.org/10.21640/ns.v9i19.854.

The present study extends empirical evidence within the Economics of Education in evaluating the technical efficiency in the use of federal resources granted to State Public Universities (UPE) through regular incremental processes and extraordinary funds, which are considered insufficient by this type of institutions. The objective of this work is to apply a procedure that allows to know the technical efficiency achieved by the UPE of northwest Mexico during the period 2014-2015. The methodology used was the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in its CCR-O model, the production function was estimated using the federal financing (ordinary and extraordinary) variables as input and new students, students graduated, accredited educational programs and academic bodies as outputs, obtained through the databases of the National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education (ANUIES) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The main findings were that the relationship between the variables used as inputs and outputs reflects an average technical efficiency of 0.860379 (0 to 1 scale), being the technically efficient the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) and the Technological Institute of Sonora (ITSON). Peer group and target data are obtained for consideration as a reference for improving institutions that are not technically efficient.

Palavras-chave : DEA; technical efficiency; financing; UPE.