Performance Efficiency of Tamil Nadu State Universities using Fuzzy DEA

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the efficiency of the Tamil Nadu state government universities using D.E.A and Fuzzy - D.E.A approach. The study includes 16 Tamil Nadu state universities considering each university as decision making units. Each D.M.U includes 2 inputs namely number of students enrolled and the number of faculty and 3 outputs namely number of students graduated, number of students placed and enrolled for higher studies. The required data was collected from the universities official websites. The efficiency scores of each university have been calculated by using both classical DEA and fuzzy DEA. Further Comparison between these two methods has been performed.