Kanchanaburi is usually described as having two universities. It has 10 higher-education campuses, spread across 6 of the province's districts — including a private university whose main campus and president's office sit in Huai Krachao, an open-university campus in Bo Phloi, a Buddhist college in Phanom Thuan, and town colleges that teach a bachelor's degree awarded by a vocational institute. Here is each one, where it is, and who actually awards the degree.
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10Campuses in the province
6With a confirmed degree intake
6Districts with a campus
7Separate degree-awarding bodies
Degrees
Where you can take a bachelor's degree
6 campuses have a bachelor's intake we could confirm from the institution's own published material. Two of them teach a degree that a vocational institute — not the college — confers, which is why a technical college here is not a certificate-only school.
These 4 sites are real and worth knowing, but we either could not confirm a current bachelor's intake there, or their own admissions material covers certificate and diploma levels only. We would rather say so than round them up into a headline number.
Not everything is in Mueang district. Campuses sit in Mueang Kanchanaburi, Sai Yok, Huai Krachao, Bo Phloi, Phanom Thuan, Tha Muang — Mahidol's campus is about 50km out in Sai Yok, Western University is an hour east in Huai Krachao, and the Ramkhamhaeng campus is up in Bo Phloi. Check the district before you sign a lease near "the university".
The college teaching the degree often is not the body awarding it. Kanchanaburi has 7 separate awarding bodies represented, including the Institute of Vocational Education, Central Region 4 and the separate agricultural vocational institute.
There is no Ministry of Public Health nursing college in Kanchanaburi. Nursing here is Western University's private Faculty of Nursing at Huai Krachao; the nearest state nursing college is Boromarajonani College of Nursing, Chakriraj, in Ban Pong district of neighbouring Ratchaburi province.
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