Katerina Fotova Čikovič: EFFICIENCY OF TERTIARY EDUCATION IN CROATIA: REVIEWING DEA APPLICATIONS
Scientific Paper
Katerina Fotova Čikovič, University North, Croatia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59014/NIUC6022
Keywords:
Croatia, Data envelopment analysis, education, efficiency
Abstract
Due to its impact on the quality of the human capital, and thus, the country’s economic
growth, education is considered a top priority and a strategic sector in every
economy. This is the reason why education is in general publicly financed by governments
throughout the world. Therefore, the efficiency of tertiary education needs to
be consistently evaluated and measured.
The main goal of this article is to survey and present all the published studies investigating
the efficiency of tertiary education in the Republic of Croatia with the
application of the non-parametric methodology Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).
Moreover, other goals of the study are to explore their used DEA models, the selected
inputs and outputs as well as their findings and recommendations.
The methodology used for this research is the extensive literature review of studies
that employ the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in the efficiency evaluation of
higher education in Croatia. The research approach includes a survey of the most
relevant scientific databases for this research (i.e. Scopus, Web of Science – SSCI
and SCI papers and the Croatian Scientific Bibliography CROSBI). The terms “Data
Envelopment Analysis”, “Education” and “Croatia” were used for the data collection.
After a total of 41 hits (5 in Scopus, 23 on WoS and 13 on CROSBI), a manual
evaluation of the relevance and a selection has been made with the criterion of paper
relevance. This ultimately led to 8 articles that investigate the relative efficiency of
Croatian tertiary education. Thus, this article presents the findings of the most relevant
published work regarding the efficiency of Croatian higher education and its
findings are invaluable to the higher education institutions, the government, as well
as academic members and the interested public.
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