identifying the best university educational departments using data envelopment analysis

Selecting the best performer departments can be a difficult task when there are many applicants for comparison. data envelopment analysis (dea) representative a non parametric tool can be used as a fair technique to support the decision making process .considering the fact that competition and dependency always exist between two real dmus, a dmu must only be compared with real dmus lying at different efficiency levels. this paper applied a contextdependent dea to determine the best candidate relative to the others, evaluate the degree of excellence of best candidates' performance and then clusters them.