Use of the SAW Method as a Determination of Scholarships for Students on Campus

Abstract

The digital era that has entered the industrial revolution 4.0, of course, facilitates all activities in obtaining information from various media as a support for the ease of information needed. The development of science and technology which is increasingly sophisticated and fast has diverse impacts in almost all sectors of life today. Decision support system in determining scholarships in tertiary institutions by using simple additive weighting (SAW) method to record PPA Scholarships on Universitas Pembangunan Panca Budi Medan students based on websites using PHP programming language and MySQL database, so as to minimize errors arising in handling data PPA scholarship and know the results of the assessment stored in the decision support system application, so it can be concluded the results of decision making. able to produce alternatives. Designing the determination of eligible students to receive a PPA scholarship by means of the total value of the overall weighting criteria of all students applying for PPA scholarship from Panca Budi University, Medan.