Teaching ITC in European Universities: A Non-Parametric Efficiency Approach

The Information Technology and Communication field of studies became popular among young people while choosing a career path in the last years due to digitalisation, artificial intelligence, automation. The purpose of this study is to measure the teaching efficiency of 40 European universities from Italy, the Czech Republic, and Croatia during the 2016-2017 academic year using the ETER database. The technical efficiency estimates of the Higher Education Institutions are computed using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) estimator and a statistical inference using the Simar-Wilson Bootstrap technique is employed to correct the results. Depending on the country, the most efficient universities were identified, and an analysis of all the sample efficiency estimates allows us to compare universities based on teaching activities they employ.