Abstract

Nowadays, Higher Education is bearing significant alters. These alters are in replying to diversity factors; the expansion of information and communication technologies, globalization, internationalization and regionalization, progress network society, developing information society, socio-cultural orientations and demographical orientations. The marketization in higher education leads to change the roles of Governments.

Keywords:

AHP , key measurer, multiple criteria decision making , performance evaluation , university,

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