Schools & universities in Maha Sarakham.

The institution the province is built around. It began in 1963 as Mahasarakham Teacher's Training College, became Mahasarakham College of Education on 27 March 1968, spent two decades from 1974 as a regional campus of Srinakharinwirot University, and gained independent statutory status in 1994 as Thailand's twenty-second public university. It runs on two sites. The original downtown campus in the provincial town covers about 368 rai and keeps Education, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Environment and Resource Studies, Tourism and Hotel Management, Cultural Sciences and the Institute of Northeastern Arts and Culture. The New Campus at Khamriang in Tha Khon Yang, Kantharawichai district — established in 1988 on about 1,300 rai, roughly seven kilometres north — is now the administrative headquarters and carries most faculties, two colleges (Music, and Politics and Governance) and nine research centres. It is the only Thai university offering postgraduate palaeontology and a bachelor's degree in the Khmer language. On enrolment we publish the university's own figure of around 41,000 students and flag its age: it dates from 2017, and we could not find a more recent official number. Note also that the source itself is internally inconsistent on faculty count, giving 17 in one place and 18 in another.

Worth separating out, because it is the piece with the widest effect. Mahasarakham University's council created the Faculty of Medicine on 21 November 2003. A medical service centre opened at the Khamriang campus on 1 July 2004 and moved downtown in November 2005; the Medical Council of Thailand approved the MD programme in 2006 and the first cohort was admitted that year. Suddhavej Hospital, named by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on 16 November 2013, opened on 6 June 2014 as the faculty's teaching hospital on Nakhon Sawan Road in tambon Talat. The faculty runs five programmes: MD, applied Thai traditional medicine, emergency healthcare, and master's and doctoral degrees in health science. Its clinical teaching network extends beyond the province — Maha Sarakham Hospital hosts a clinical medical education centre for it, and so does Roi Et Hospital about forty kilometres east, which is why that province's tertiary axis points this way.

The province's second university and the older lineage of the two: it traces back to a teacher-training school founded in 1925, became a Rajabhat Institute in 1992 under the national reform of teachers' colleges, and became Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University in 2004. It runs roughly ten faculties spanning science and technology, education, management science, humanities and social sciences, agricultural technology, information technology, political science and public administration, law, engineering and graduate studies, and has a branch campus in Nong Khai. We do not publish a student count for it: the estimates we could find range from roughly 10,000 to roughly 20,000 and come from ranking aggregators that disagree with each other, with no primary institutional figure available. That gap is also why we do not publish a combined provincial student total anywhere on this hub.

Thailand National Sports University maintains a campus in Maha Sarakham. The institution nationally was upgraded to full university status in 2018 from the former Institute of Physical Education system. We could not find a student count for the Maha Sarakham campus specifically. The campus is one of the two that were flooded to around a metre in the October 2022 Chi River flood, alongside Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University — which is a useful indicator of where in the town it sits.

Below university level the province runs the standard Thai government school system across all thirteen districts, alongside a technical college and a nursing college in the provincial town — both of which show up clearly as rental-demand anchors in the portal data. We are not naming individual secondary schools here, and that is a deliberate limit rather than a judgement about the province: school-level data for Maha Sarakham did not clear our verification standard, so the honest statement is that this is a gap in BAANLYY's coverage which we expect to close, not a claim that the province lacks good schools. We also make no assertion about English Programme provision at any specific school.

BAANLYY could not verify an international-curriculum school anywhere in Maha Sarakham province. Be precise about what that sentence means: it means we could not confirm one exists, which is not the same as confirming that none does. The nearest school we can confirm is Silver Fern International School in Roi Et, about sixty kilometres east — an authorised IB World School running the Primary Years Programme with a Middle Years Programme candidacy, teaching in English alongside Thai and Chinese, drawing on Cambridge IGCSE frameworks, offering both day and boarding places, and publishing its fees: 2025/26 annual tuition ran from roughly ฿267,000 in the earliest years to roughly ฿506,000 at MYP 2, before a ฿10,000 application fee, registration and a refundable deposit, with a 10 per cent sibling discount. Sixty kilometres is a commute or a boarding decision, not a relocation — but it is in another province, and any family weighing Maha Sarakham needs that fact up front rather than buried.