“…Many research on efficiency analysis in higher education have been published in recent years. While some of these studies focused on the efficiency of universities, vocational high schools, grammar schools and faculties (Kempkes and Pohl, 2010;Ozel Kadılar, 2015), others looked at the efficiency of individual departments within a university or faculty (Abdullah et al, 2017;Altamirano-Corro and Peniche-Vera, 2014;Barra and Zotti, 2016b;Jauhar et al, 2018;Kashim et al, 2018;Sirbu et al, 2016;Halásková et al, 2022).…”