@thesis{thesis, author={Asri Yessy and PUTERI DHEA ARLINA and Putra Rakhmadi Irfansyah}, title ={SISTEM PENDUKUNG KEPUTUSAN PEMINATAN JURUSAN PADA SMA AL-AZHAR BSD MENGGUNAKAN METODE SIMPLE ADDITIVE WEIGHTING (SAW)}, year={2018}, url={http://156.67.221.169/4728/}, abstract={Choosing majors in High school to develop three competencies, such as Attitude, Knowledge, and Skills based on interest, talent, and/or academic ability is one of the key success to build a better future. Therefore, choosing majors starts from the beginning of their high school education (tenth grade) to build a good and strong foundation. SMA Al-Azhar BSD, which become object of this research, have some lack in the process to help their student for choosing the right majors for them such as it takes longer time (almost 2 weeks), and in some case, leads to error because the process of determining the majors is done manually. To overcome this problem, then researcher create a decision support system that can help counseling guidance to determine which majors fit to each one of their students. The criteria used in this research are total average score of their Junior High School, Junior High School Score, Junior National Exam Score, School Recommendation of Origin, and Student Interest. The method used in determining the specialization of this department is the Simple Additive Weighting method. This method was chosen because it is able to make an assessment more precisely because it is based on the criteria and weighted preference values that have been determined, besides that SAW can also select the best alternative from a number of alternatives. The end result of this research found that decision support system with Simple Additive Weighting method able to overcome the problems in the process of majors in SMA Al-Azhar BSD. The values obtained from the application is V1 (1) and V4 (0.825) majoring in science, while V2 (0.675) and V3 (0.625) majoring in social studies.} }