Selection of Scholarship Acceptance Using AHP and TOPSIS Methods

The government through the Directorate General of Higher Education of the Ministry of National Education seeks to allocate funds to provide tuition assistance to students who have high achievements or from poor families in the form of scholarships. However, because of the large number of students who register to get a scholarship program, selection must be made. Therefore, the selection of recipients of the Academic Achievement Improvement Scholarship (PPA) scholarship was conducted with a case study in the STIMIK Informatics Engineering Program Ten November Jayapura by combining the AHP and TOPSIS methods. Selection of scholarship acceptance using the AHP and TOPSIS methods can solve the problem of PPA scholarship acceptance by providing recommendations to the administration carried out by the Informatics Engineering program effectively and efficiently determining the Academic Achievement Improvement Scholarship (PPA) recipients. Some of the criteria used include GPA, File Completeness, Parent Income, Number of Parents, and Job Status. This study concluded that the selection of scholarship acceptance was successfully carried out using a combination of AHP and TOPSIS methods. The test results use the User Acceptance Test with the number of questions 6 and the number of respondents 10 people where the average answer is 28,335 agree and 55% strongly agree. From the results of the combination of AHP and TOPSIS methods obtained 5 students ranked 1-5 who meet the requirements to get a PPA scholarship (Academic Achievement Improvement).