<![CDATA[The selection of Kartu Indonesia Pintar (KIP) scholarship recipients requires an objective and systematic decision-making process because it involves multiple social and economic criteria. Manual selection may cause inaccurate targeting due to subjective assessment. This study applies the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method to determine the eligibility of KIP scholarship recipients at Universitas Muhammadiyah Pringsewu and evaluates the conformity of the ranking results with actual recipient data using Spearman Rank Correlation. The data consist of 940 KIP scholarship applicants that were cleaned, encoded, and transformed into sixteen decision criteria. Entropy weighting was used to obtain objective criterion weights, followed by TOPSIS calculation to produce preference values and rankings. The results show that TOPSIS recommended 524 of 540 actual recipients, with a decision conformity percentage of 97.04%. The Spearman correlation coefficient reached 0.8479 with a very small p-value, indicating a very strong and significant relationship between TOPSIS rankings and actual data. These findings indicate that TOPSIS is reliable for supporting targeted KIP scholarship selection.]]>
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