Handbook of Operations Research and Management Science in Higher Education (1st ed. 2021)

This handbook covers various areas of Higher Education (HE) in which operations research/management science (OR/MS) techniques are used.

Key examples include: international comparisons, university rankings, and rating academic efficiency with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); formulating academic strategy with balanced scorecard; budgeting and planning with linear and quadratic models; student forecasting; E-learning evaluation; faculty evaluation with questionnaires and multivariate statistics; marketing for HE; analytic and educational simulation; academic information systems; technology transfer with systems analysis; and examination timetabling.

Overviews, case studies and findings on advanced OR/MS applications in various functional areas of HE are included.