| dc.description.abstract | Admission of students into any institution of learning such as Ankole Western University is a core
activity. Every academic institution needs students to exist and survive. Thus an admission system
of a University needs to be efficient and effective in order to avoid unnecessary delays associated
with inefficiencies. Of concern is that, this paper confirms and quantify that 78% of admissions
were performed on filling paper forms. Such admissions were characterized by multiple
admissions, being costly, inconsistency, inaccuracy, and difficulties in following admission
procedures and such admission system was considered unfair and not transparent.
To mitigate these challenges, a web-based solution named Ankole Western University-Admission
Management System (AWU-ADMS) has been designed and developed to resolve the identified
admission challenges. The proposed AWU-ADMS was designed to be a web-based solution and
is intended to reduce admission costs by reducing turnaround time for entire admission processes,
encourage the use of paperless admission; control forgery over entry qualifications (certificates)
during the admission process and reach many geographically scattered applicants. The data was
mainly collected through interviews, questionnaires and document reviews followed by a design
in Unified Modelling Language (UML) to meet the admission system requirements. The system
was developed using PHP, HTML, JavaScript and MySQL. The system was tested numerous times
with real data by the department of Academic Registrar, Ankole Western University.
Keywords: Web based, Admission, Private Students, PHP, JavaScript’s and MySQL | en_US |
