Abstract:
In Sri Lanka annually millions of funds allocate from
the Government budget to the universities in Sri Lanka
to ensure quality higher education system. There are
15 universities were established and functioned under
the apex body of University Grants
Commission (UGC). The general concern that
university’s prestige depends on their teaching and
research activates rather than the other facilities.
However, in Sri Lanka there is an ongoing debate that
efficiency of some universities are affected by regional
disparity, location or size.
In this study we focus on measuring efficiency of all
state universities in Sri Lanka using Data Envelpment
Analysis (DEA). Further analysis focused on the
degree of efficiency by regional disparity or the size of
the university.