| Agasisti (2011) | Expenditure, Entry rates, Students: teachers | Population, Graduation rates, Employment, Foreign students |
| Agasisti and Bianco (2009) | Costs for non-academic staff, Costs for academic staff, Costs tor all staff, Other costs, Total costs | Students enrolled in scientific courses, Students enrolled in non-scientific courses, Total number of students, Ph.D. students, External funds for research activities |
| Agasisti and Johnes (2009) | Total number of students, Total amount of financial resources/incomes, Number of Ph.D. students, Number of academic staff | Number of graduates, Total amount of external grants and contracts for research |
| Agasisti and Pohl (2012) | Students, Academic staff, Expenditures | Graduates, External research |
| Barra et al. (2018) | Number of academic staff, Percentage of enrolments with a score higher the 9/10 in secondary school, Percentage of enrolments who attended a lyceum, Total number of students | Number of graduates weighted by their degree classification, Research grants |
| Barra and Zotti (2016) | Equivalent personnel, Total amount of financial resources the department spends on research activities, Total amount of financial resources the faculty allocates for teaching activities, Total number of students enrolled | Number of publications, Total external research funding obtained by the university, Research productivity index/ capacity of attracting resources index/ research productivity per cost of the academic staff index, Number of graduates weighted by their degree classification, Student satisfaction index/ undergraduate satisfaction index |
| Barros et al. (2011) | Number of educational years in higher education, Experience of the workers without student job | Wages |
| Edvardsen et al. (2017) | Faculty employees, Administration and other employees | Study points for courses of a lower degree, Study points for courses of a higher degree, Publishing points, Doctorates/Ph.Ds. |
| de França et al. (2010) | Total number of professors with Ph.D. Degrees, Total number of support and administrative personnel, Total number of majors offered | Total number of students that graduated during the year, Total number of candidates registered to take the entrance examination, Total number of students enrolled at the university |
| Johnes (2013) | First node: Intake quality, Student: staff ratio, Per student spend. Second node: Degree results, Research reputation | First node: Student satisfaction, Degree results. Second node: Employability |
| Singh and Ranjan (2017) | Number of teachers (Professors and Associate Professors), Number of teachers (Assistant Professors and others), Number of non-teaching staff. | Students enrolled in Ph.D. and M. Phil., Students enrolled in P.G. and P.G. Diploma, Students enrolled in U.G., Students enrolled in Diploma, Certificate, and Integrated courses, Students enrolled in P.G. and P.G. Diploma open courses, |
| Thanassoulis et al. (2011) | Total operating cost | Students enrolled in U.G. open courses. Undergraduates in medicine or dentistry, Undergraduate science students, Undergraduate non-science students, Postgraduate students in all disciplines, Quality-related funding and research grants, Income from other services |
| Wolszczak-Derlacz (2017) | Academic staff, Total revenue, Total number of students, Non-academic staff | Publications, Graduates, Scientific articles |
