DEA for measuring the academic performance of a higher educational institute of Uttarakhand, India.

This paper estimates the performance assessment of 15 academic department of government PG College, Gopeshwar, Chamoli Uttarakhand (India) for the academic year 2011-2012. In Indian context efficiency of a government PG degree college of Uttarakhand state (India) is being measured for the first time to the best of authors knowledge. Using DEA models, we estimate the overall technical, pure technical and scale efficiency and identify the reference sets for inefficient departments for teaching and research separately. We also classify the academic departments in the high, middle and low robustness in terms of overall technical efficiency (OTE) for teaching and research efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]