Abstract:
The best location for bank branch is crucial to the success of banking business. And the selection
of proper location is the first and foremost importance decision making process in terms of multi
criteria problems. The main importance for deciding where to site the bank branch are: the rate
of population growth and deposits and loans, business competition, having easy access. This
research paper's objective is to provide a framework which helps in decision support system in
order to select the most appropriate site for a bank branch considering a case study in
Bangladesh. This paper provides an ultimate framework to select the most optimal site for bank
branch among five alternatives. Total population, urbanization rate, construction cost, security,
entrepreneurship rate and utilities are the main criteria to select the best alternatives. An AHP
(Analytical Hierarchy Process) provides the best possible model to solve this type of multi
criteria decision making problems. AHP model was proposed by an American methodology to
get an optimal solution to several attribute problems. To denote the practicality of the proposed
model in decision support system, AHP has been applied to initiate real world location selection
