University and college web portals have always been the façade of an organization to promote their mission and vision, and endorse their academic standards and expertise. Aside from good marketing and external promotion, an academic institution can be labeled "high-end" if all internal transactions, from academic affairs to administration, are automated, which spares faculty and staff from doing redundant tasks.
Management information systems for academic institutions always cover major transactions like online student applications, student management for scores and performance, scheduling, attendance monitoring, and course list development. All these automated transactions are done manually by officers and administrators, which may cause overheads on resources, time and cost.
Many of the school management systems are written in PHP or Ruby Rails, possibly because of the easy syntax these languages exhibit, or the availability of pre-packaged snippets...