Scholarship Acceptance Selection Using Neural Network Method

Abstract

Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta is one of the private tertiary institutions that provides scholarship programs. UMY provides scholarship programs for outstanding students and middle-lower class students. In the process of receiving a scholarship, UMY has two stages, namely registration and selection. In order to obtain a scholarship, students who register must be declared to pass administrative selection and meet the assessment component as a condition for students to be eligible for scholarships. In order to know the scholarship information received by students, data processing is needed, data processing is often referred to as data mining. This writing is done to predict prospective scholarship recipients using the Neural network algorithm. The methodology at this writing begins with searching for literature studies, choosing data mining methods, data collection, data processing, application and testing of models, results and conclusions. The data used at this writing are 2019 general scholarship data, GPA data, and organizational active information data. The attributes used are parental income, GPA, scholarships, qualification and non-qualification, and active organizational information. The caption attribute qualification and non-qualification is used as a label. At this writing the authors get an accuracy of 72.62%..