Public higher education institutions in Colombia have limited resources (and often insufficient), so it is crucial to use them adequately to fully achieve their mission objectives. This paper presents a measurement and analysis of the technical efficiency of teaching, a core mission of the undergraduate attendance programs at Universidad Nueva Granada. The method used is data envelopment analysis, as it provides relative efficiency scores of the units under study and it also gives additional information of the reference peers. This allows formulating improvement plans for the university management. Two study scenarios were defined: the first includes inputs and desirable outputs and the second takes into account undesirable outputs. Performance was analyzed for six consecutive semesters from the year 2011 and the corresponding Malmquist indices were calculated. The results are encouraging since they indicate that 30.76% of the programs are 100% efficient in all periods regardless of the scenario in which they were measured.Keywords: Data envelopment analysis, Higher Education, Relative efficiency, Malmquist index, Undesirable outputs. ResumenLas instituciones de educación superior de carácter estatal en Colombia cuentan con recursos limitados (y muchas veces insuficientes), por lo tanto es perentoria hacer una adecuada utilización de ellos para lograr el cumplimiento de sus objetivos misionales. En este artículo se presenta una medición y análisis de la eficiencia técnica de la enseñanza, una misión funcional de los programas de pregrado presencial de la Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. El método utilizado se basa en el Análisis Envolvente de Datos, puesto que permite calcular índices de eficiencia relativa de las unidades objeto de estudio y además suministra información adicional para la obtención de pares de referencia. Esto permite formular planes de mejoramiento en la gestión universitaria. Se definieron dos escenarios de estudio, uno considerando entradas y salidas deseadas y otro involucrando adicionalmente una salida indeseada. Se analizó el desempeño durante seis semestres consecutivos a partir del año 2011 y se calcularon los correspondientes índices de Malmquist. Los resultados obtenidos son alentadores puesto que indican que el 30.76% de los programas resultaron 100% eficientes durante todos los periodos analizados independientemente del escenario en que fueron medidos.
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