%0 Journal Article %T Efficiency in higher education %A Dugulean£¿ %A C. %A Dugulean£¿ %A L. %J Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series V : Economic Sciences %D 2011 %I Transilvania University Press %X The National Education Law establishes the principles of equity and efficiency in higher education. The concept of efficiency has different meanings according to the types of funding and the time horizons: short or long term management approaches. Understanding the black box of efficiency may offer solutions for an effective activity. The paper presents the parallel presentation of efficiency in a production firm and in a university, for better understanding the specificities of efficiency in higher education. %K Low efficiency %K High efficiency %K Technical efficiency %K Scale efficiency %K Allocative efficiency %K X-efficiency %U http://webbut.unitbv.ro/BU2011/Series%20V/BULETIN%20V/19%20duguleana%20c%20l%20BUT%202011%202.pdf