This paper aims to provide an analysis of the academic performance of higher education institutions (HEIs) in Vietnam with 50 universities and 50 colleges in 2011–2012.
The two-stage semiparametric data envelopment analysis is used to estimate the efficiencies of HEIs and investigate the effects of various factors on their performance. The findings reveal that HEIs in the surveyed sample reveal that there are still potential avenues to improve their existing performance. There appears to be a difference in the efficiencies of public and private HEIs in the reported year. It is noted that the inefficiencies of HEIs are not entirely a result of managerial performance, but also influenced by other factors such as location, age and the contribution of tuition fees.
Our results are expected to provide more understanding of the operational efficiencies of HEIs for educational managers and policy makers in a way to find possible solutions to improve the performance of Vietnamese higher education.
Tran, C-D., T.T. and Villano, R.A. (2017) An empirical analysis of the performance of Vietnamese higher education institutions, Journal of Further and Higher Education, 41:4, 530-544.
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