Both in Poland and in other European Union countries, universities are financed by public funds. This is due to the role that societies assign the spread of higher education. Thus, the question of the efficiency of public universities and their faculties in the allocation of scarce resources economy. In the article it has been taken the discussion about the problem of measurement of efficiency of public universities. A review of the relevant domestic and international literature was undertaken. The article presents the results of researches in the DEA efficiency ratio for forty seven faculties representing life sciences. The efficiency indicators were compared with the level of public funding. The discussion of the results was conducted using the Pearson Correlation.
