New student admission is a regular event held by all universities in
Indonesia every year. This event is said to be the initial process of a qualified new
student seeking. The system of new student admission is done through interest and
achievement way and reguler way. Recently, the data processing of the new
student admission of medical faculty has been using Microsoft Excel. However, it
still lacks of score processing that is used as the criteria of new student
admission. Score processing takes quite much time in selecting or rangking.
Decision support system is the appropriate one to implement because it is able to
help making decision based on the available criteria. The method used in this
research was TOPSIS method (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to
Ideal Solution). TOPSIS method was used because of the basic concept that the
best alternative not only has the shortest gap from the ideal positive solution but
also has the longest gap from the ideal negative solution.