Development Assessment of Higher Education System Based on TOPSIS-Entropy, Hopfield Neural Network, and Cobweb Model

Table 2

Comprehensive evaluation results obtained by TOPSIS and the entropy weight method.

First level indicators	Secondary indicators	Weight	Entropy
Infrastructure factors	Number of institutions of higher learning	0.075	0.95
	Number of teachers in institutions of higher learning	0.22	0.86
Educational equity factors	Gender ratio of college students	0.27	0.83
	Share of teachers between private and public universities	0.06	0.96
	Higher education enrollment rate	0.11	0.93
Teaching quality factors	Graduate quality	0.06	0.96
	Postgraduate rate	0.07	0.95
	Government expenditure on higher education (% of GDP)	0.06	0.96
Scientific research level factors	Number of scientific researchers (per million people)	0.06	0.96
	Number of high-quality scientific research articles output	0.06	0.96
	Scientific research expenditure (% of GDP)	0.06	0.96