Recommendation system for selecting universities in Indonesia using Google Maps API services

摘要

University is the highest education level to be achieved by many people in Indonesia. Finding information about universities is often required by Senior High School students to continue their studies. This information contains the university name, location and the quality of the majors. Distance is one of the factors that becomes the consideration for many people to pursue the higher education. Thus, the use of supporting technology to search the nearest campus will be needed by these students. The purpose of this research is to design the system that can facilitate the students in Indonesia in choosing the nearest university based on majors, accreditation, city, and province. The searching method to get the nearest location is also done by Google Maps API Service. The amount of data to be used in this research are from DIKTI that include list of universities and majors in Indonesia. The results of this study expect the college recommendation can be used as a reference for students in choosing college at college.