The paper presents data from research on the effectiveness of undergraduate courses at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) between the years 2006 and 2009, based on indicators of inputs and outputs. For this method utilizes the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a non-probability sample of 30 undergraduate courses. Adopting as output indicator the number of students conclusive, it was found that on average, the amount of conclusive is far below the amount of new students during the whole period. Applying the complete modeling of the DEA, with emphasis on output indicators (student conclusive), the results show that there is a group of nine DMUs (decision making units), equivalent to 30% of the courses analyzed, which remained at the over time, the highest level of efficiency. Similarly, we found five DMUs (16.7%) which, over time, always remained inefficient, with values ​​of relative efficiency below 80% (minimum standard of efficiency relative).

Higher education, educational assessment, performance indicators, data envelopment analysis.