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Abstract

The development of the Android platform on mobile devices is experiencing rapid increase in Indonesia. This confirms that the Android mobile platform is still a favorite mobile system operation for Indonesia society. Along with this, nowadays almost all high school students in Indonesia wished to continue their education to university after graduation. However, not all this prospective students know the majors or courses that suit with them. Algorithm is one of the swarm intelligence that evolves fast for almost area of optimization and engineering. To solve this problem, we suggest building an application that can calculate several possible courses relevant to students based on certain matters. Based on the DSS (Decision Support System) and using the method of AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) as one of the methods of expert system, this application can be calculating and displays the results in the form of courses that correspond to users that the candidate based on ideals, interests, values, academic advice, and their financial ability. These applications are built on the mobile platform Android which is being favored by Indonesian society, and society also aims to be a practical and easy to use anywhere and anytime. Based on the results of the questionnaire, the results obtained from the application can be accepted as input to select majors at university. Based on the data obtained in the questionnaires, the most important criteria is ideals. Ideals the most attention in choosing college majors with percentage of 48.9%, followed by interest (25.2%), the value of academic (11.6%), financial (8.7%), and the nearest person advice (5.7%).