Schools & universities in Chanthaburi.

Not limited, not thin — none. Two censuses built on entirely different methods return zero for Chanthaburi: Wikipedia's province-filed list of international schools in Thailand, which files entries under every other eastern province, and the commercial International Schools Database, whose Thailand coverage spans 18 cities and does not include Chanthaburi. A Thai-language search surfaces only boarding and private Thai schools, no international-curriculum provision. Families who need an IB, British or American track through to secondary must plan around this: it is the single most important fact on this page, and hedging it would cost you more than stating it.

Rayong is the closest: Garden International School Rayong and St. Andrews International School Green Valley both sit roughly 1.5–2 hours west along Highway 3. Further on in Chonburi province, the Pattaya area adds Regents International School Pattaya, Tara Pattana International School and the International School of Chonburi, and ISE International School sits at Bowin in Si Racha — roughly 2.5–3.5 hours from Chanthaburi city depending on the campus and traffic. That is a daily commute nobody makes: in practice, families needing an international track either relocate to Rayong or board. Confirm current fees, curricula and bus routes directly with each school.

The province's flagship government secondary school, on Siriyanusan Road in Wat Mai, Mueang Chanthaburi. Provincial officials funded its first building in 1912 as Chanthaburi's model school, dedicating the merit to King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), which is where the Benchamarachuthit name comes from. Its own site documents an English for Integrated Studies (EIS) stream alongside the standard Thai curriculum — the closest thing in the province to English-medium secondary teaching.

The city's other large government secondary school, at 1 Sriyanusorn Road in Wat Mai, a few minutes from Benchamarachuthit. Between them these two absorb most of Chanthaburi's academically selective secondary intake. Matthayom 1 and Matthayom 4 admission rounds are typically announced early in the calendar year for a Thai school year that starts in May — worth knowing if you are timing a move. Check each school's own announcements rather than relying on a general date.

One of the larger government primary schools in Mueang Chanthaburi, and the province's main English Program (EP) route at primary level — the school has run and publicly documented its EP project for well over a decade, and recruits native-speaker teachers into it. For a family that wants substantially more English than a standard Thai government school without leaving the province, this is the realistic option.

A Lasallian Roman Catholic co-educational school at 58 Moo 1, Chanthanimit, teaching kindergarten through secondary. It opened in 1945 as Mandapitak, taking boys in primary grades 1 to 4, and was renamed La Salle Chantaburi in 1977 under the De La Salle Brothers. The province's Catholic heritage is not decorative: Chanthaburi's Catholic community traces to Vietnamese migrants who settled here in the early 1700s and built their first chapel around 1711, and the diocese still runs schools and the cathedral across the river. Note that this is a Thai-curriculum private school, not an international one.

Chanthaburi's main public university, named after Queen Rambai Barni (consort of King Prajadhipok, Rama VII), on the eastern side of the city at Tha Chang. It is the anchor of the city's student population and its rental market, with faculties across education, humanities, science, technology and management.

Not in the city, and worth knowing before you pick an address: Burapha's Chanthaburi campus is at 57 Moo 1, Chonprathan Road, Tambon Khamong, Tha Mai district, out in the orchard belt west of Mueang Chanthaburi. The university renamed it from its Chanthaburi information-technology campus to plain Chanthaburi Campus on 1 June 2009, and its own campus administration lists three faculties there — Science and Liberal Arts, Marine Technology, and a Faculty of Gems. In a province whose economy runs on rubies and sapphires and whose weekend market is a working gem exchange, a dedicated gems faculty is a real local specialism rather than a generic offering.

The province's third university, and the one most guides leave out. RMUTTO's Chanthaburi campus is at 131 Moo 10, Tambon Phluang, Khao Khitchakut, on a site of roughly 1,567 rai backing onto Khao Khitchakut National Park and the provincial scout camp. It began as Chanthaburi Agricultural School — known locally as Kaset Krathing, after the wild gaur that once ranged the forest around it — which opened to its first 63 students and five teachers on 11 June 1964, fifteen years after the province first asked for it. It became a college in 1974, joined the Rajamangala Institute of Technology as its Chanthaburi campus in 1989, has taught bachelor's degrees since the 1995 academic year and has been part of Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok since 2005. Two faculties sit here: Social Technology (information technology, digital agribusiness, logistics, accounting, human resources, English, hospitality, plus an MBA) and Agro-Industrial Technology. An agricultural school became the province's applied-science and business campus without ever leaving the orchards — but it is well inland, so treat it as a commute, not a city address.

Chanthaburi has been training nurses since 1965. A cabinet decision of 1 May 1963 to develop the eastern region put a committee under Phra Bamrat Naradura, then Minister of Public Health, and out of it came a nursing, midwifery and health school at Prapokklao Hospital, which took its first intake in 1965 under the patronage of Queen Rambhai Barni — the same queen the city's rajabhat university is named for — and kept it until her death in 1984. It became Prapokklao Nursing College in 1974 and sits at 36 Liap Noen Road, Wat Mai, minutes from the hospital. Its parent body has moved twice, which is why older listings disagree: nursing graduates here took a Burapha University degree from the 1997 academic year, when the college became an affiliated institution of Burapha, and since the Praboromarajchanok Institute Act B.E. 2562 (2019) the institute has been a health-sciences university in its own right under the Ministry of Public Health, teaching the nursing degree through its own Faculty of Nursing. Together with the hospital's CPIRD medical education centre — which has trained doctors for Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Medicine since 1976 — it makes Chanthaburi a health-sciences training town, not just a hospital town.

Routinely underestimated, including by us until this update. Chanthaburi Technical College, at 44/3 Chanthakhamwithi Road, Tambon Talat in the city, is one of the nine colleges that make up the Institute of Vocational Education: Eastern Region, created on 13 June 2012 under the Vocational Education Act B.E. 2551 and spanning Chonburi, Rayong, Chanthaburi and Trat. That membership is the point: through the institute the college teaches to Bachelor of Technology level and publishes the programme on its own site, so the common assumption that a Thai technical college stops at the ปวช. and ปวส. certificates does not hold here. The institute's office was first housed at this college in July 2012 and now sits at Rayong Technical College, 086/13 Tak Sin Road, Mueang Rayong — the headquarters left the province, the degree route did not. The college also runs a gems and jewellery department, which in Chanthaburi is a trade, not a hobby. Elsewhere in the province: Chanthaburi Polytechnic College, the Nayai Am and Soi Dao industrial and community education colleges, and Omsin Upatham Vocational College.