EFFICIENCY OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN ROMANIAN UNIVERSITIES: AN ORDER - ALPHA PARTIAL FRONTIERS APPROACH

Romanian universities are characterized by increasing teaching activities that are sometimes detrimental to the professors' research activities due also to the lack of funding. The importance of evaluating universities efficiency rose in recent years to become one of the primary aims of universities management. This paper examines the universities managerial efficiency using nonparametric partial frontiers on empirical data regarding Romanian education system. We employ FDH and robust order a efficiency estimators in order to get a better insight in the data set outliers. Results are reported for two separate categories of universities according to their size analyzing research, teaching and overall efficiency estimates. Interesting insights regarding the trade-offs between teaching and research activities shows as an increased effort in the Romanian universities to increase their ranking by investing in the research area even with the reduce funding.