"Efficiency in Higher Education" is a sub-system within the total education system in a country. Higher Education contributes a major role in the national development, enriching the human potential. At the same time, climbing on the pinnacles of higher education and enjoying its benefit is not an easy task to achieve for a large number of people in the country. The objectives of the national education system is the attainment of competency of large majority of the people, appropriate skills and desirable attitude that ensures establishment of a viable socio-economic base for consolidating national freedom and advancement in the quickly progressing world. Hence, the issue of excellence, equity and efficiency assume great importance in higher education. Higher education worldwide is in a period of transition, affected by globalization, the advent of mass access, changing relationships between the university and the state, and the new technologies, among others. Global Perspectives on Higher Education provides cogent analysis and comparative perspectives on these and other central issues affecting postsecondary education worldwide. A good higher education system is required for overall development of a nation. A remarkable growth in the higher education sector had made the administration of higher education institutions intricate. Many researches reveal that the integration of technologies helps to reduce the intricacy and enhance the overall efficiency and effectiveness of higher education. Effectiveness, relate mainly to the relevance of higher education to the labour market. Efficiency, concerned mainly with quality and throughputs. Efficiency as the functional aspect which is defined as obtaining the maximum possible performance for any given expenditure of resources. An education system may be called efficient what it attains the maximum level of results for a minimum level of investment. Investments and results in this context must be evaluated, aggregated, measured, and marked. Efficiency has been perceived and measured in different yardsticks. The efficiency of the higher education depends on the efficiency of the higher educational institutions. Excellence, equity and efficiency are interlinked and go hand-in-hand to the extent that one affects the other, in its positivity and negativity. In the present education system, there are so many reasons challenging and thwarting this smooth-sailing process. This book offers an international and comparative view on efficiency in higher education, ranging from policies to practices, mainly based on research results and empirical evidence, aiming at questioning the concept and its uses which are not only social constructions but also political ones. Far from being a neutral or technical concept, efficiency is heavily infused with values which must be traced, analysed and made critical to understand its impacts, backlashes and unintended outcomes on higher education systems, institutions, academics and students. The book is addressed to an international audience and in particular to higher education scholars and professionals. Those who are involved in higher education assessment, members of professional bodies and organizations in the higher education field, students in education, but also policy makers and the public opinion at large will profit from the works of a selected group of scholars coming from a variety of countries. A sense of disquietude seems ever present when discussing new digital practices. The transformations incurred through these can be profound, troublesome in nature and far-reaching.