Dipartimento di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali - Università di Cagliari
Abstract
Evaluation is one of the major tasks for managing the Italian
University system. One of the evaluation parameters has to do with the
efficiency/inefficiency of the university in pursuing one of its main goals:
graduation of the students. Inefficiency could be seen with respect to three
different components: (a) students quitting before the end of the legal length of
their studies, (b) students quitting in a period that is the double of the legal
length of the studies, (c) students that do not terminate their studies in time. The
aim of the present paper is to propose some indicators that can be fruitfully used
in a joint evaluation of these components. Some simulations are also provided
