ONLINE TRACER STUDY OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This research serves as the basis to design an online graduate tracking system needed by Bung
Hatta University to meet the standards required by National Accreditation Board of Higher Education
Institutions of Indonesia (BAN-PT) and the University stakeholders. The system, which is called Tracer Study, is
programmed by using PHP and MySQL programming languages and by applying CMS Bootstrap. There are
four actors/elements involving in the Tracer Study, namely: Graduates/Alumni, Employers of the Graduates,
University Official, and Administrator of the System. The system applies waterfall method with several stages of
processing, namely analysis, designing, coding, testing, and maintenance. The design of Tracer Study has
already been tested at small scale within the circle of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education and is
currently applied at big scale by uploading the same at the website of Bung Hatta University after obtaining the
approval of University official.