Wie effizient sind Universitäten in Deutschland, deren Zukunftskonzepte im Rahmen der Exzellenzinitiative ausgezeichnet wurden?

In this study, we undertake an efficiency analysis of universities, which were funded for their “future concepts” in the German Excellence Initiative: RWTH Aachen, FU Berlin, HU Berlin, Uni Bremen, TU Dresden, Uni Freiburg, Uni Göttingen, Uni Heidelberg, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Uni Köln, Uni Konstanz, LMU München, TU München, and Uni Tübingen. For the statistical analyses, we used the Data Envelopement Analysis (DEA) and the newer and more robust Partial Frontier Analysis (PFA). The input-variables are the budget and scientific staff of the universities; the output-variables were number of (highly-cited) publications. The results of the DEA show that some universities can be indicated as particularly efficient: Uni Heidelberg, Uni Konstanz, and LMU München. The results of the PFA indicate that Uni Konstanz is even super-efficient. Read more...