Philippine E-Journals

Technical and Allocative Efficiencies of State Universities and Colleges using Data Envelopment Analysis and Pareto Optimality

Jannette B. Jauculan-icao

 

Abstract:

In the face of Normative Financing, government support for colleges and universities declines. Little has been known on containing productivity and costs of their instruction, research and extension especially in the countryside. The study aimed to determine the technical and allocative efficiencies of the six State Universities and Colleges in Region IX using Data Envelopment Analysis and assessed based on Pareto Optimality. The descriptive method of research was utilized aided by data mining. The respondents of the study were the six State Universities and Colleges in Region IX. The study revealed that the allocation of financial resources among SUCs in the region did not only differ in their ability to transform inputs into outputs but hardly results to producing the optimal combinations of instruction, research, and extension. The study concludes that out of the six SUCs only one came out to be both technically and allocatively efficient. Other SUCs produced the sub-optimal bundle of outputs but has the ability to improve its situation and focus on the alignment of its own mission. University and College officials shall shift resources in a more efficient manner thereby ensuring maximum outputs given inputs.