The impact of international competition on the efficiency level of tertiary institutions

If competition pressures institutions to achieve higher levels of efficiency then it would be expected that education institutions that are most exposed to international competition would be expected to achieve greater levels of technical and scale efficiency. The purpose of the paper is to first use Data Envelopment Analysis to determine the individual level of efficiency achieved by a group of tertiary institutions, and then quantify the degree to which the divergence in efficiency levels is due to the various institutions' exposure to international education markets. Exposure to international markets can not just mean that educational institutions generate export income for a country but can also enable these institutions to make more efficient use of their resources for domestic purposes as well