The popularization and marketability of higher education render increasingly sharp the shortage of educational resources. In this event, it is indispensable for colleges and universities to heighten the efficiency of resource distribution and strengthen management of educational cost for the sake of its continuous and healthy development. An evaluation system designed to evaluate the educational cost effectiveness in colleges and universities can accomplish the job scientifically and thoroughly, which is helpful in enhancing the interior management of colleges and universities, in increasing investment benefit of higher education and in offering a scientific basis for establishing tuition standards so that the tuition standards will be made reasonable.Based on the existing research results on this topic in and abroad, combined with the economic environment and individual characteristics of average colleges and universities, this article points out that managerial mode of educational cost for colleges and universities, together with DEA system for evaluating the mode, should be established. In particular, DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis), the non-parameter method, is to be employed to make an analysis of the actual achievements in managing educational cost in the 21 colleges and universities investigated.
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