The geographical efficiency of education and research: The ranking of U.S. universities

Jean-Pascal Guironnet and Nicolas Peypoch

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2018, vol. 62, issue C, 44-55

Abstract: This paper proposes to study the American efficiency of educational diffusion and research productivity following two distinctions: urban vs. rural areas and public vs. private universities. Following this geographical consideration, knowledge diffusion seems to be homogeneous over the American territory, whereas research productivity is more heterogeneous: American research efficiency decreased of 7% points, due to some rural university localizations. Universities in urban areas favor educational quality through high student selection criteria, contrary to those located in more rural areas. Third, public universities present higher educational efficiency, in favoring educational quality over research productivity: the lesser research efficiency of public institutions comes from difficulties in the management of several campuses, by comparison with the private institutions which are all single-campus.

Keywords: Efficiency; Hierarchical DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis); Higher education; Ranking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C38 H43 I20 O51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2017.07.003

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