DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2014.v01i11.010

Pages: 593-597

The government spending in higher education in China has annually been increased and the scientific research level of university determines its ability of receiving resources/budgets. This paper applies Data Envelopment analysis (DEA) for evaluating the relative efficiency of top 20 universities in China. Nine factors inclusive 4 inputs and 5 outputs are selected to find the rank of universities in 2013. Kourosh and Arash Model (KAM) is applied while a very small negligible thickness of the efficient frontier is introduced. KAM represents that only one university can be efficient with 10-6degree of freedom (DF) and other DMUs are inefficient with 10-6-DF while three universities were completely inefficient. The suggested KAM rankings are compared with the measured rankings by China Statistical Press (CSP). A significant difference can be seen between the two sets of ranking which suggests CSP to resurvey its methodology to rank universities of China.