University of Education, Winneba Productivity and Efficiency: A Data Envelopment Analysis Exploration, Ghana

Abstract

This paper estimates the University of Education, Winneba productivity and efficiency using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Taking full-time equivalent fulltime-students load, full-time equivalent distance-students load and full-time equivalent sandwich-students load as outputs, and  the emoluments and salaries, and the book and research allowances expenditures as inputs, the results indicate that the UEW productions were technically efficient for the 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015 academic years, whilst the 2010 and 2014 academic years were not. The results further indicate that for the 2010 academic year the input cost incurred by the UEW in producing the sandwich output could have produced 5865 sandwich students in addition and for the 2014 academic year the input cost incurred by the UEW in producing the distance output could have produced 3032 distance students more. The UEW production for academic years for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 exhibited constant returns to scale and that of academic years 2014 and 2015 exhibited decreasing returns to scale.