The future of any high school student depends mostly on selecting the right place to study after graduating from high school. Most high school graduates are lost in selecting their right path in Kuwait due to increasing number of university or college alternatives. This paper explains development of a decision support tools that helps high school fresh graduates to choose the best university or college in Kuwait based on their preferences. To choose the right university to apply, there are many decisions that should be taken into considerations. These decisions are related to variety of universities/colleges and the students' preferred criteria. Decisions upon which university should be selected depends on a list of criteria's, this makes the problem is a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. A Decision Support System (DSS), more specifically, a knowledge-driven DSS is developed to consider this problem. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a MCDM process that is chosen to provide alternative solutions for the students based on their several criteria's. Microsoft excel is used in applying AHP, and a Website is built to represent the future business. Index Terms-Analytical hierarchy process, decision support system, multi-criteria decision making, university/college selection problem. I. INTRODUCTION Nowadays people face different kinds of selection problems such as; selecting the right car, house, phone, and universities. Most of students are faced to the university selection problem after graduating from high school by deciding where to continue their education. In Kuwait, there are many options of universities/colleges, which put the students in confusion, and they start to wonder where to go, which university, or college fits them the most, and how to take into consideration all the fact that will lead them to the Manuscript
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