Phetchaburi's universities.

PBRU traces its roots to a 1926 teacher-training school, became Phetchaburi Teacher College in 1969, a Rajabhat Institute in 1995, and Phetchaburi Rajabhat University in 2004. It's a genuinely comprehensive public university with roughly 10,500 students across faculties including information technology, education, agricultural technology, humanities and social sciences, management science, engineering and industrial technology, science and technology, and nursing and health sciences -- offering around 66 bachelor's, 10 master's and 3 doctoral programmes.

Silpakorn University, one of Thailand's oldest and most respected public universities, established a satellite campus in Cha-am (Phetchaburi province) in 1997 -- officially the Phetchaburi Information Technology Campus. It's the first campus in Thailand designed around energy conservation and environmental preservation (a 'Clean and Green' layout with cars parked only at the campus edge, bicycles and walking paths inside). The campus hosts the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (est. 2003), the Faculty of Animal Sciences and Agricultural Technology (est. 2001) and the Faculty of Management Science (est. 2002), plus a repository of the Faculty of Archaeology and a research centre of the Faculty of Pharmacy.

Yes -- Phetchaburi Rajabhat University (PBRU), a comprehensive public university tracing back to a 1926 teacher-training school and formally a university since 2004, with around 10,500 students across eight faculties including IT, education, engineering, management science and nursing.

Silpakorn University -- one of Thailand's oldest public universities -- operates a distinct satellite campus in Cha-am, within Phetchaburi province, established in 1997 as the Phetchaburi Information Technology Campus. It's a notably 'green' campus design and hosts faculties for information technology, animal sciences/agricultural technology and management science.

Both are primarily Thai-language public universities serving Thai students, not international-degree institutions. Foreign residents relocating with university-age children or considering local study should confirm current English-language programme availability directly with each university before assuming an English-taught option exists.

It can -- areas near PBRU in town and near the Cha-am IT campus see some student-oriented rental demand (smaller units, shorter leases). For families or professionals, the wider Phetchaburi and Cha-am rental market covered in our areas and where-to-live guides is a better starting point than campus proximity alone.