The Swedish National Audit Office has audited the resource efficiency and productivity of Nordic higher education institutions. The audit’s overall conclusion is that the Swedish higher education institutions studied compare well with other higher education institutions in the Nordic countries with regard to resource efficiency and productivity. For some higher education institutions, however, there is greater potential for improvement for the entire period studied, 2011–2016.
Compared with the NAO’s previous audit of the efficiency of Swedish higher education institutions, the results of this audit show a similar potential for improvement. In the former audit, however, a comparison was only made of the
Swedish higher education institutions, which is why the results are not entirely comparable.