Design and Development of an Online New Student Admission System: A Case Study of Universitas Doktor Husni Ingratubun, Papua

Universitas Doktor Husni Ingratubun (UNINGRAT) Papua is one of the private higher education institutions located in Jayapura City, Papua Province. UNINGRAT Papua has conducted its New Student Admission (NSA) program for two years. However, the program organized by the NSA Committee has not been running optimally and has failed to achieve its target. The admission process is still conducted manually, in which prospective new student (PNS) data are recorded in a book and stored in filing cabinets as committee archives. Information regarding registration procedures and requirements is only available when prospective students visit the university in person. Furthermore, the NSA Committee often encounters difficulties in conducting selection processes and tests for prospective students because notifications about selection and test schedules are usually delivered via mobile phone calls or text messages, while the selection and tests themselves are conducted exclusively on campus. These conditions have significantly affected the quality of services provided by the NSA Committee, time efficiency, and the achievement of the university's target number of prospective students who successfully enroll as new students (NS) at UNINGRAT Papua. Based on the observations and surveys conducted, the researcher proposes developing a web-based New Student Admission (NSA) system as a solution to improve the quality of services provided by the NSA Committee to prospective students, accelerate the online delivery of admission information, improve time efficiency, increase the number of enrolled students, and ensure that prospective student data are properly organized, particularly throughout the registration, data processing, selection, and enrollment stages. The objective of this study is to develop a web-based NSA system that can be accessed online anytime and anywhere to help achieve the university's new student enrollment target. The method used in this study is the Waterfall method, which consists of data collection, literature study, analysis, system design, program coding using PHP, database design using MySQL, testing, and implementation.