The impacts of Brazilian higher education quantitative growth on its quality have been challenged since educational quality is an important predictor of a country's economic growth. It is also known that this expansion process allowed the establishment of low quality educational institutions and courses. In this context, it is fundamental to know how available educational resources influence learning effectiveness in higher education. However, in academic publishing, there is obvious lack of studies that explored the relationship between students' performance and faculty educational attainment and faculty working arrangements. This research is focused on Management Education in Brazil, which showed substantial expansion over the last 15 years, consistently with the global growth of Management Education. Its main purpose is to investigate the effects of faculty characteristics on graduate students' performance on the Brazilian national exam (Exame Nacional de Desempenho dos Estudantes -ENADE). Therefore, a database was created, using data extracted from 'Microdados ENADE 2012' and from 'Microdados Censo da Educação Superior 2012'. Three multiple regression models were developed: a general model, for all the 1,286 higher education institutions in the database, and two specific models (one for public educational institutions and the other for private educational institutions). The dependent variable was generated through a factor analysis, which compressed the information contained in five variables that objectively measured graduate students' performance on ENADE 2012. The results provide compelling evidence that faculty educational attainment, number of teachers per course and amount of courses offered by an IES have predictive power over students' performance on ENADE 2012. It is expected that these findings encourage the development of new studies in order to reinforce this research area and expand the scientific knowledge, generating practical contributions that could promote ongoing improvement of Management Education quality in Brazil.

Precificação de atributos com modelos hierárquicos lineares: uma aplicação ao mercado brasileiro de motocicletas populares (Tese de Doutorado).