Decision Supporting the Best Student with the Implementation of the SAW Method System in SMK Muhammadyah 8 Medan

Being an outstanding student is the dream of every school age child. The achievements obtained are of course based on an ability of the knowledge possessed by each student, so this achievement will greatly help get a good life in the future. At SMK Muhammadyah 8, it is still difficult to give rankings in determining outstanding students among the many outstanding students because the selection is still manual and often experiences errors due to human errors. Decision Support Systems (DSS) are used to increase effectiveness and reduce subjectivity in decision making. There are several methods used in Decision Support Systems, one of which is the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method. The SAW method or often referred to as a combination linear weighting or scoring method, this method is based on the average weighting. The criteria used in this study were student absenteeism, student attitudes, the average score of report cards, extracurricular activities, student and academic activeness and 10 alternatives were used. By applying the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method, the results obtained from this study are Alternative 1 (A1), namely Sinta who is the best student at SMK Muhammadiyah 8. And the system that has been built using the programming language PHP and MySQL as the database can be assisting the SMK Muhammadiyah 8 in determining the selection of the best students using the SAW method at SMK Muhammadiyah 8 Medan