UECS: University Eligibility Checking System for State Universities in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Most of the systems regarding the application submission are merged with the official web site of the education institute/university or organization. When selecting courses, the most eligible course should be mentioned as the first option in the application form. So, to make the right selection, the applicant should be more aware of the available degree programs suitable for his/her Z-Score. The requirement of the UECS system emerges as a solution to overcome the inconveniences caused during the selection of a suitable degree program when applying to the government universities in Sri Lanka. The current process of University Grant Commission (UGC) university application & the difficulties faced by the applicants are identified and the modules of the proposed system are discussed through the functional and non-functional requirements identified by analysing the existing system. The introduced application will help students to check their individual eligibly for degree programmes offered under state universities of Sri Lanka. The system is developed by using an open resource platforms such as PHP, Hyper Text Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheet.The system was able to guide the students to select most suitable degree programme and the universities which offer the degrees according to their eligibility criteria’s.