摘要：Determining the efficiency of public spending on education is a current topic in economic research. Hence, in this article we aim to estimate the relative efficiency of public spending on tertiary education within the EU member states. For this purpose we use the DEA method (Data Envelopment Analysis) which is a non-parametric method derived from linear programming. The input variable used is public spending on education per student (level ISCED 5 and 6) expressed in PPS (CHELT variable), and as output variable we considered the total number of graduates per 1000 persons age 20 to 29 years. The results show that Bulgaria, Romania and Poland represent the efficiency frontier, countries for which the lowest expenditures per student are recorded.
