Rate My Professor Carolyn Tran

Dr. Tran's career includes previous roles as Senior Research Officer at the University of Sydney, Discipline Leader in Business and MBA Program Manager at the International College of Management Sydney from 2018 to 2020, Educational Consultant for a World Bank project in 2015, and Vice Rector of a Vietnamese college from 2005 to 2013. At UNE, she coordinates and teaches units including Introduction to Business Analytics (QM162), Business Statistics (QM161), Business Decision Making (QM265), Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (ECON377), and Digital Marketing Fundamentals (DM120). Her key publications include 'Administrative Intensity and Financial Sustainability: An Empirical Analysis of the Australian Public University System' (2025, International Journal of Public Administration), 'The Influence of Administrative Intensity on Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of Australian Universities' (2023, Economic Papers), 'Administrative scale economies in public organisations: Evidence from Australian public universities' (2022, Studies in Higher Education), 'What Factors Generate Municipal Inefficiency? An Empirical Investigation of the Determinants of Input Excess in South Australian Local Government' (2021, Public Performance and Management Review), and 'Efficiency of the teaching-industry linkage in the Australian vocational education and training' (2021, Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training). Her work addresses administrative intensity, financial sustainability, scale economies, municipal performance, and policy impacts on public sector efficiency.