This work shows the contribution of the method Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in the evaluation of the efficiency of organizations that operate in differentiated contexts. The DEA application in the State University of Goiás (UEG) demonstrates that 20 of the 39 analyzed units are inefficient. The 20 suffer negative effect from context measured by HDI-M. Isolating this effect, the number of inefficient units falls to 11 and the mean of the efficiency indexes passes to 0.95 which indicates that these units could produce the same outputs, reducing the inputs at least 5%. Alternatively, UEG, keeping the current level of inputs , could increase its production by 7%. This research has shown, also, that 11 units are too small and nine are too large. This information could be used to reduce costs and to optimize the size of the units.
Data envelopment analysis; Institutional evaluation; Context; Efficiency
