Handbook of Operations Research and Management Science in Higher Education (eBook)

This handbook covers various areas of Higher Education (HE) in which operations research/management science (OR/MS) techniques are used. Key examples include: international comparisons, university rankings, and rating academic efficiency with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); formulating academic strategy with balanced scorecard; budgeting and planning with linear and quadratic models; student forecasting; E-learning evaluation; faculty evaluation with questionnaires and multivariate statistics; marketing for HE; analytic and educational simulation; academic information systems; technology transfer with systems analysis; and examination timetabling. Overviews, case studies and findings on advanced OR/MS applications in various functional areas of HE are included.


Zilla Sinuany-Stern is a Professor Emerita at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) at Ben-Gurion University (BGU), Israel. Her research interests include operations research (OR) and management science (MS): theory and applications. She has published over 150 articles, and held many important academic positions, such as: Head of the Department of IEM at BGU, President of the Israeli Society of Operations Research, Vice President of the European Association of Operations Research (EURO), Provost of Ariel University, Member of the Israeli Council for Higher Education (CHE), and Chair of its Quality Assurance Committee (CHE).