Assessing academic performance is a common way of evaluating and assessing the abilities of students in tertiary institutions. Usually it is practically performed based on the cumulative grade point average (GPA) at the end of each semester passed. Unwittingly there are many factors that are able to influence student performance results apart from GPA as a performance measure; i.e. gender, hometown, sibling, family status, residence, father education, mother education, family income, motivation, mileage, traveled time, transportation, scholarship, community, social media, and hang-out. Academic performance assessment is proposed through the decision support model (DSM) applying the fuzzy logic (FL) Sugeno technique. The model output generates a decision value (linear or constant equation) for academic performance based on the calculation of the measured fuzzy parameter value (ax) and conventional parameter value (bx). The DSM with the FL Sugeno method is able to provide sharp output in assessing student academic performance. In this case, the model is able to be applied then to assist academics in higher education in determining educational strategies for students with poor academic performance results.