Explorando a eficiência das atividades de graduação e pós-graduação em universidades brasileiras: uma nova abordagem DEA em rede paralela com recursos compartilhados.

Abstract

Evaluations in the educational segment present themselves as a challenge due to the many criteria to be considered. Thus, the present work proposes a new approach to evaluate Brazilian higher education institutions using a DEA model in networks. The proposed model contemplates two steps in parallel and aims to evaluate undergraduate and graduate activities considering the sharing of resources between these activities and undesirable variables. A sample with 81 public universities was used to illustrate the method and the data correspond to the year 2020. The proposed approach provides new insights into Brazilian higher education and through efficiency decomposition, the decision maker can identify the least efficient academic structure, facilitating the development of improvement strategies for each university.