Multiple attribute decision making with simple additive weighting approach for selecting the scholarship recipients at Syiah Kuala university

Many scholarships have been routinely offered by the educational institutions including Syiah Kuala University. This university has extensively distributed academic achievement and Financial Aid scholarships. Generally, students who have submitted all requirement documents and applied to these scholarships will be selected by a scholarship committee. By using the scholarship committee preferences, the results obtained an amount of vagueness and subjective. The selection process is also too difficult and take so long time. In order to solve this problem, a decision support system (DSS) using Multiple Attribute Decision Making with Simple Additive Weighting Method was demonstrated by using a numerical example to determine the scholarship recipients. The method is able to display a list of the scholarship recipients by sorting the best alternative values from a number of alternative values in descending order. In this paper, we used ten scholarship recipient candidates as the alternatives and four scholarship requirements as the criteria or the attributes. The results obtained with finding the weight values of each attribute, then ranking the optimal score value of each alternative. Finally, this method can be used in this case study.