Schools & universities in Lopburi.

The province's international school, at 110 Moo 1, Prommart, Mueang Lopburi 15000 (084-281-1464). Its own site describes preschool and elementary programmes built on three named strands — the school's DISCOVER Framework, the International Preschool Curriculum and US Common Core Standards — with Thai language and culture taught alongside, plus after-school and summer programmes. One precision worth carrying into a school visit: the IPC here is the International Preschool Curriculum, whose site the school links to directly, and not the International Primary Curriculum that the same three letters mean elsewhere in Thailand. Directory entries describe Crestview as the first international school in Lopburi province and give an age range of 2 to 6; the school's own pages advertise elementary as well, and it ran separate preschool and elementary parent orientations for the 2026–27 academic year on 17 August 2026. Ask which grades are actually running in the year you need — that is the one question these two accounts do not settle between them.

There is no international secondary school in the province, and no school here offers the IB Diploma, IGCSE or A-Levels. Crestview takes children through the early years and elementary; after that, an international track means moving. Two realistic answers: Bangkok, 133 km down the Northern Line with the deepest international provision in the country, or neighbouring Saraburi province, which has four international schools — three of them offering boarding — and is the nearer option for a family that wants to keep a central-plains base. BAANLYY says this plainly rather than telling you to verify locally and leaving you to discover it.

Lopburi's public university, and older than most people expect. It was founded on 21 September 1920 as Lawasri School, a girls' school housed in the Chantharaphisan Throne Hall inside King Narai's Palace, became a women's teacher-training school, and took the Thepsatri name when it moved to its present Narai Maharat Road campus. It became Thepsatri Teachers College in 1958, was granted the Rajabhat name by King Bhumibol in 1992, and became a full university under the Rajabhat University Act in 2004. Faculties cover education, humanities and social sciences, management sciences, science and technology, industrial technology and information technology. It is a rajabhat — a regional, teaching-focused university with deep roots in teacher training — not a research flagship, and that is the honest frame for a family or a student weighing it against Bangkok.

The institution most Lopburi guides leave out, including ours until this review. Ramkhamhaeng University runs one of its 23 regional academic-service campuses here, at Ban Huai Piam, Tambon Pa Tan, Mueang Lopburi — about 26 rai, on the campus's own account. It was proposed in 1995 under the Eighth National Plan, agreed between the then provincial governor Thawisak Wiangwiset, the mayor of Lopburi Prawet Phumphuang and Ramkhamhaeng's rector Rangsan Saengsuk, and built with local money: 2 million baht from the King Narai Fund, 2 million from the San Phra Kan office, 3 million from Lopburi municipality, and 6 million from the abbot of Wat Phra Bat Nam Phu for the canteen and washrooms, alongside contributions from 11 municipalities and 114 tambon administrations. Teaching began on 1 October 2000 with three master's programmes — business administration, educational administration and political science — and 405 students; bachelor's intake followed in 2001 across law, business administration, humanities and political science, with 796 students in the first year. For an adult already working in Lopburi, this is the practical route to a Thai degree without moving.

The route most young people in Lopburi actually take is vocational, and it is unusual here in one respect. Lopburi Technical College sits at 323 Narai Maharat Road, Thale Chup Son, Mueang Lopburi, alongside Lopburi Vocational College; there is also a second technical college, Lopburi Technical College No. 2, at 205 Moo 5, Dilang–Wang Phloeng Road, Tambon Wang Phloeng, Khok Samrong 15120 (036-680391), teaching auto mechanics, welding, electrical power, electronics, construction, accounting, business computing and hotel work. Above the vocational certificates, the continuing bachelor of technology is conferred not by any individual college but by the Institute of Vocational Education: Central Region 2 — and unlike most provinces, that institute is headquartered inside this one, at the same 323 Narai Maharat Road address, telephone 0 3642 5113, with member colleges in Lopburi, Sing Buri, Chai Nat and Ang Thong. Which bachelor's subjects are sited at which Lopburi college is published through the institute's admissions rounds rather than a standing register, so ask the college for the intake you are applying to rather than assuming the institute-wide list applies locally.

Lopburi is Thailand's army training town, and the establishments are real institutions with real campuses rather than a vague garrison presence. The Artillery Center is headquartered at Camp Phumiphon in Khao Phra Ngam subdistrict, Mueang Lopburi — the camp was Camp Phahonyothin, named for Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena, before it was renamed for King Bhumibol. The Army Aviation Center is headquartered nearby, also in Khao Phra Ngam, at Camp Somdet Phra Srinagarindra. The Special Warfare Command is likewise based in the province. These are professional military institutions, not schools civilians can enrol in, but they are why the New Town exists, why the province carries an army hospital, and why its rental demand is as steady as it is.

For Thai-medium and bilingual schooling the province is well served, and this is the route most local and mixed families actually take. Phibulwitthayalai School is the best-known government secondary school in the city, and Thepsatri Rajabhat's demonstration (satit) provision sits alongside it. Anuban kindergartens and English-programme streams exist at the local level; ask each school which stream it runs, because an English Programme inside a Thai school and an international curriculum are different products at very different price points.