Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University.

Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University at a glance

Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University (ARU) traces its origin to 1905, when it was founded as a teacher training school under King Chulalongkorn -- consistent with the standard lineage of Thailand's Rajabhat university system. It later gained Rajabhat Institute status and was proclaimed a full juristic-person university under the 2004 Rajabhat University Act.

ARU is at 96 Pridi Banomyong Road, Pratu Chai Sub-district, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya 13000 -- inside the historic island, walking distance from the old city's museums and markets. It is a coeducational public university teaching to undergraduate and postgraduate level through four faculties and its own Graduate School, which publishes five doctoral programmes (educational administration, curriculum and instruction, business administration, public administration, and criminology and justice administration), six master's programmes and a graduate diploma in the teaching profession.

ARU also houses the Ayutthaya Studies Institute (สถาบันอยุธยาศึกษา), the university's research and public-exhibition centre for the history of the old capital -- a genuinely useful stop for a newly arrived resident who wants the city explained by the people who study it -- and it operates its own demonstration school on the university site. That school follows the Thai curriculum: Ayutthaya still has no international K-12 school of its own, per BAANLYY's Ayutthaya schools guide.

Some aggregator sites instead cite 1985, likely an administrative-designation year rather than the original founding.

What it awards, and under whose authority

Rajabhat university with juristic personality under the Rajabhat University Act B.E. 2547 (2004); state university under the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation.

• Bachelor's degrees
• Master's degrees -- six programmes published by its Graduate School
• Doctoral degrees -- five programmes published by its Graduate School
• Graduate Diploma in the Teaching Profession

Notable facts

• Originated 1905 as a teacher training school under King Chulalongkorn; became a full juristic-person Rajabhat University under the 2004 Rajabhat University Act.
• Address: 96 Pridi Banomyong Road, Pratu Chai Sub-district, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya 13000 -- on the historic island itself.
• Its Graduate School publishes five doctoral programmes, six master's programmes and a graduate diploma in the teaching profession.
• Home to the Ayutthaya Studies Institute, the university's centre for research and exhibition on the old capital.
• Operates its own demonstration school on the university site -- Thai curriculum, not international.
• Some sources instead cite 1985 as the founding year -- likely an administrative-designation date rather than the original school's founding; BAANLYY flags this rather than picking one silently.