%0 Journal Article %A Veljko Jeremic and Milica Kostic-Stankovic and Aleksandar Markovic and Milan Martic %D 2014 %J International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 86, 2014 %T Towards a Framework for Evaluating Scientific Efficiency of World-Class Universities %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9997575 %V 86 %X Evaluating the efficiency of decision making units has been frequently elaborated on in numerous publications. In this paper, the theoretical framework for a novel method of Distance Based Analysis (DBA) is presented. In addition, the method is performed on a sample of the ARWU’s top 54 Universities of the United States; the findings of which clearly demonstrate that the best ranked Universities are far from also being the most efficient. %P 569 - 574