Eficiência relativa das universidades federais brasileiras

Abstract

According to the principle of efficiency applied to public administration, provided for in art. 37 of the Magna Carta, the Brazilian Federal universities should get their management efficiency, which means the achievement of better results, with the smallest effort. Under This approach, the efficiency of public higher education, aims at the quality of education for the production of skilled labor for the market. In this context, the general objective of this work was to evaluate the relative efficiency of the Brazilian Federal universities, in that concerning the performance of management indicators of TCU, contained in the report of Management, through the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). As to the objectives and approach to the problem, the study was descriptive and quantitative, respectively. The model DEA was the BCC, with focus on outputs. The results revealed that among the 59 universities in the sample, 23.73%, that reached the border efficiency and 76.27% inefficient. Among the 14 efficient, only 11 have been benchmark for other universities, highlighting the UFCG, which was reference to 25 universities, followed by the UnB and UFRJ, which were reference to 22 universities, each. Among the factors with greatest potential for improving the efficiency, the ‘RUF’ Note, with 39.81% increase, followed by ‘graduation Success rate’, with 22.29 percent increase, and, thirdly, the index ‘CAPES/MEC’, the graduate, with increase of 17.78%, for the range of efficiency of universities as a whole.