A web-based graduate application database system

This paper discusses the analysis, design, and implementation of a Web based database system capable of handling on-line graduate study applications. The aim of the system is to provide a simple, user-friendly interface and a secure on-line database for submitting, retrieving, and sharing application data through Internet, hence to speed up the application process. We chose to base on the Web for many reasons including user familiarity, broad availability, low distribution cost, and minimal development time. By means of experimenting the system, we describe some design challenges of a Web based database application, such as authentication, access control, and security issues, and how we choose to address these challenges and build the system efficiently and effectively