Abstract

A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further his or her education. This research focuses on Federal Scholarship awarded by the Malaysian Education Ministry. It demonstrates the scholarship selection with cases in Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan To’ Uban, Pasir Mas, Kelantan, in 2015. The scholarship was given to form one to form five students and was awarded to those who performed in their academics and co-curricular activities but only for students whose parents with low income. The selection of eligible students in receiving the scholarship has become more challenging throughout the years due to competitiveness and an increasing number of applicants. In order to overcome this problem, Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process method was applied in this research. The objective is to identify the most important criteria and sub-criteria for the selection of students and aims to select the students who fulfil the criteria and sub-criteria. The result shows that the most important criteria are academic performance followed by parents’ income and co-curriculum, respectively. Moreover, for the sub-criteria of academic performance, the most important sub-criteria is “High”. The criteria for the parents’ income is left out since the sub-criteria exists is only one. Lastly, for the criteria co-curriculum the most important sub-criteria is “Sports”. The final results show that Alternative 9 is the best choice in selecting the student.