Effectiveness Determination of Higher Education usingLinear Programming

Higher education presents main engine of society’s overall progress and development. The producers of the knowledge and future progressive force in all sectors of today’s living are personified in the Universities. As generators of academic individuals, it is important to achieve high level of educated and qualified students/future employees that will be able to fit in the real sector and contribute to the collective/personal live. To accomplish that, resources investments are necessary to be made by the Universities. The question is how to organize the resources in order of efficient production of high qualified future academic individuals. Moreover, in cases of inefficiency detection, the question is what is necessary to be done for improvement. This paper shows concrete linear programming technique application called DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis), used for measuring the efficiency of the University study program, who through its real implementation represents a basic generator of knowledge.