Development of the Student Management System (SMS) for Universities in Bangladesh

Abstract

A great number of higher educational institutions are currently operational in Bangladesh and every year more are entering the market. Higher educational institutions are big places with many people involved and countless operations take place at all times. Traditionally, operations and transactions in such places are handled by paper based forms and systems. However, as the daily increase of places and human population; managing large organizations such as universities with pen and paper are becoming quite troublesome and are leading to tremendous amout of mistakes and mismanagements. Long ago, developed countries addressed this issue and ever since they have been using computers and information technology to handle such organizations effectively. However, in countries like Bangladesh, those solutions are not yet widely implemented; and therefore handling large organizations manually is becoming next to impossible. Only few universities in Bangladesh are using computerized automated systems to manage university activities. This work attempts to find out the statistics about the automated systems uses in the higher educational institutions in Bangladesh and also proposes a methodological automated system framework called Student Management System (SMS) that can replace the less efficient traditional system. Here, we tried to accommodate everything for a student from entering the university, to graduate and then to remain in the alumni association as well as other possible functionalities for the university management to serve the students better and to execute university tasks painlessly.