Author(s)

Umi Mahmudah, Muhamad Safiih Lola

School of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Malaysia.

The main objective of this study is to measure the relative efficiency of Indonesian universities in 2015. There are twenty five DMUs with four inputs and five outputs that are analyzed. Due to the low number of Indonesian scientific publications, this study analyses the performance of the top 25 universities based on the Webometrics ranking as it has been used as one of the indicators of university achievements by the Higher Education of Indonesia. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to obtain the scores of efficiency, while the Fuzzy approach is applied to address the possibility of errors from the auditor’s assessment in determining the input and output variables correctly. The FDEA can be used in measuring the universities performances under imprecise inputs and outputs. Both the CRS (constant returns to scale) and the VRS (variable returns to scale) models are presented. The empirical results show that 36 percent of universities perform efficiently on the CRS model while 52 percent of universities have efficient performances under the VRS model. Furthermore, the well-known universities have shown relatively low scores, which indicate they need to improve their performances in publishing scientific work, as well as providing useful information to the public through the official websites. Generally, the results of the VRS model are better than the CRS model for both the DEA and the FDEA methods.

Efficiency Measurement, Universities, DEA, FDEA

Mahmudah, U. and Lola, M. (2016) The Efficiency Measurement of Indonesian Universities Based on a Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis. Open Journal of Statistics, 6, 1050-1066. doi: 10.4236/ojs.2016.66085.