Schools & universities in Roi Et.

This is the fact that separates Roi Et from every province around it. Silver Fern International School is an authorised IB World School running the Primary Years Programme, and — in its own current wording — a candidate school for the Middle Years Programme, pursuing authorisation. Its address on its own site is 16 Moo 21, Airport Road, Tambon Nuea Mueang, Amphoe Mueang, Roi Et 45000, and the contact number it publishes is (+66) 099 467 1222. It teaches in English with Thai and Chinese as additional languages, and draws on Cambridge IGCSE frameworks and the Thai Ministry curriculum alongside the IB; its published Middle Years subject list runs language and literature, mathematics, sciences, language acquisition, Thai language, Chinese language, Thai history and culture, individuals and societies, music, art, physical and health education, design and ICT, with a Personal Project and community service built in. It is co-educational, takes children from early years, and offers day and boarding places — boarding from PYP 4 onward, in small family-style houses close to the school. One practical warning, because it cost us time and will cost you some: there are two Silver Fern domains, and the short one is a fossil. The live school site is silverferninternationalschool.com, carrying a 2024 copyright and the address above; silverfern.school is an abandoned earlier site whose most recent calendar entry is a parent evening in March 2018. Do not read the dead one as evidence the school has closed. On fees, this page has withdrawn a set of figures it used to print, and the reason is worth stating plainly because the fault was ours. Silver Fern does not publish a fee schedule on its own site; the numbers we carried for 2025/26 came from a third-party international-schools directory. That was disclosed in this card — but the FAQ further down this same page, and the cost-of-living page on this hub, both attributed the identical figures to the school itself. Three surfaces, one set of numbers, two different stories about where they came from, and nobody had checked. BAANLYY's standing rule is that we do not publish per-school fee figures that change annually, precisely because a stale number quoted with false authority is worse than no number: a family budgets on it. So the schedule is gone and what replaces it is the shape of the decision rather than its price. Expect an authorised IB programme in a small Isaan municipality to cost a multiple of a Thai state English Programme and a fraction of a Bangkok or Phuket international school, expect application, registration and deposit charges on top of tuition, expect a sibling discount, and expect boarding to be quoted on enquiry rather than listed. Ask the school for its current schedule in writing before you commit to anything.

Roi Et Rajabhat University is the province's main public higher-education institution, established in 2001 and recognised by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation. It sits out at Ko Kaeo in Selaphum district rather than in the provincial town, which matters practically: the student rental market around the campus is a distinct cluster from the one in Mueang Roi Et, and it is the cheapest formal housing in the province, with blocks quoting from around 1,500 baht a month in our August 2026 portal check. It is a coeducational institution offering undergraduate and graduate programmes with the usual Rajabhat spread across education, sciences, humanities and management.

The degree awarder this page missed — and it is the one inside the provincial town. วิทยาลัยนาฏศิลปร้อยเอ็ด, the Roi Et College of Dramatic Arts, is one of the regional dramatic-arts colleges that grew out of the Fine Arts Department's art-education division and now sit under the Bunditpatanasilpa Institute: a degree-conferring institution of the Ministry of Culture rather than of the higher-education ministry. That is exactly why it is absent from the usual Thai university lists, and it is why an earlier version of this page could describe the province's higher education as a Rajabhat, a Buddhist campus and a technology campus and believe the list was complete. It teaches to bachelor's level — a four-year ศึกษาศาสตรบัณฑิต, a Bachelor of Education, in Dance Education (นาฏศิลปศึกษา) and in Music Education (ดนตรีศึกษา) — alongside secondary-level study in the same subjects. Its address is 25 Kong Phon Sip Road, Tambon Nai Mueang, Amphoe Mueang Roi Et: inside the municipality, not out at Ko Kaeo. Its published academic output is emphatically local rather than generic-conservatoire — khaen and pi technique, pong lang ensemble practice, mo lam repertoire and Isan folk notation — which makes it the province's main formal custodian of the music Roi Et is actually known for. Two honest limits: we did not establish its founding year to a standard we would publish, and for a relocating family this is not a schooling option. The reason it belongs here is narrower and more useful than that. It moves the answer to 'is there degree-level study in the town itself, as opposed to out in the districts' from no to yes.

The card below this one calls Mahamakut 'one of Thailand's two national Buddhist universities'. Both of them are here, and the phrasing hid the second as effectively as leaving it out would have. Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University — MCU — runs วิทยาลัยสงฆ์ร้อยเอ็ด, the Roi Et Buddhist College, at 252 Moo 4, Ban Tha Yiam, Tambon Niwet, Amphoe Thawat Buri 45170. Its own history page traces the route: teaching began in the town at Wat Burapha Phiram; the university approved a Roi Et classroom-expansion project there on 27 August 1999, which the college still commemorates as its founding date; it moved in 2004 to Wat Sa Thong on Hai Sok Road — the same temple in whose grounds Roi Et Wittayalai School was founded in 1907, a connection this hub already carried on another card without anyone joining the two; and in 2010 it built its own site on public grazing land at Don Daeng in Thawat Buri. It was raised to a classroom of MCU's Khon Kaen campus in 2011 and approved from that year to admit lay students, not only monks and novices, at bachelor's level; it became a college in its own right in 2015 and added postgraduate work in 2017. It currently lists four bachelor's degrees — Buddhist Studies, Public Administration, Political Science and Education — and three master's. One internal conflict in the source, printed rather than smoothed over: the same history page that dates the founding to 1999 also dates first teaching to the 2008 academic year, with an intake of 49 monks and novices. The practical consequence for this hub is that Thawat Buri — the airport district — is a third Roi Et district with a degree site, which this page previously did not count.

Mahamakut Buddhist University maintains a campus in Roi Et. It is the second of Thailand's two national Buddhist universities to hold a site in this province — see the MCU card above, which an earlier version of this page did not carry. It is a visible enough presence in the local rental market to register on the portals as a demand anchor in its own right — the second-largest of the three education anchors we could identify around Mueang Roi Et, after the industrial and community education college. For most relocating families it is not a schooling option, but it is part of why the town has a student population and the apartment stock that goes with one.

Rajamangala University of Technology Isan operates a Roi Et campus at Thung Kula Ronghai, on the southern rice plain — a separate institution from the Rajabhat, and one worth distinguishing because the two are routinely confused in directory listings and in conversation. It gives the province an applied and technology layer at university level that does not depend on Roi Et Rajabhat.

This is the layer most likely to be undercounted anywhere in Thailand, because the degree is not awarded by the institution whose name is on the gate. Roi Et Technical College (วิทยาลัยเทคนิคร้อยเอ็ด), Roi Et Vocational College (วิทยาลัยอาชีวศึกษาร้อยเอ็ด) and Roi Et Industrial and Community Education College (วิทยาลัยการอาชีพร้อยเอ็ด) are all constituent colleges of the Institute of Vocational Education: Northeastern Region 3, and it is the institute — not the individual college — that confers the เทคโนโลยีบัณฑิต, the Bachelor of Technology. The institute covers the four-province Roi-Kaen-Sara-Sin cluster: Roi Et, Khon Kaen, Maha Sarakham and Kalasin, the 'Roi' in that cluster name being this province. Its office, though, sits at Maha Sarakham Technical College, one province west — so the body that awards the degrees a Roi Et student earns is administered from outside Roi Et. Two addresses worth having, both in Mueang Roi Et: Roi Et Technical College is on Thewaphiban Road, the same road as Roi Et Wittayalai School at 275/14, which this page already names — the province's flagship state secondary and its technical college are neighbours, and no page on this hub had noticed. Roi Et Industrial and Community Education College is at 177 Ronnachai Chanyut Road, Tambon Nai Mueang, Roi Et 45000, telephone 0-4351-3862; on the portal data it is the single largest driver of student rental demand in the town. One honest limit, and it is the one this kind of card usually gets wrong: membership of a degree-conferring institute is a permission, not a programme. We have confirmed that Roi Et Technical College teaches to Bachelor of Technology level. We have not established which specific programmes the institute currently sites at each of the three colleges, and this page does not guess at them.

Ramkhamhaeng runs two different regional networks and they do not cover the same provinces, so it is worth being exact about which one Roi Et has — the distinction decides whether a distance student can stay put. Roi Et does not have a สาขาวิทยบริการเฉลิมพระเกียรติ, one of Ramkhamhaeng's regional campuses. Roi Et does appear in the university's regional examination-centre network, which Ramkhamhaeng describes as 41 centres across 39 provinces, and for a distance student that is the network that matters: it means you can register for a Ramkhamhaeng bachelor's degree and sit the examinations in this province rather than travelling to Bangkok or to a campus province for every sitting. We were not able to confirm, from Ramkhamhaeng's own current published list, which venue in Roi Et hosts the centre, and we are not willing to name a school on the strength of a third-party directory — check the university's own examination announcement for the term you register in.

The province's flagship state secondary, founded in 1907 in the grounds of what is now Wat Sa Thong and given its present name in 1914. It is classified an extra-large secondary school, and it has taken the national Royal Award in that category four times — 1980, 1986, 1996 and 2010. Its own history page is what settles the question this guide previously left open: it opened a Gifted Program at lower and upper secondary in 2004, a Chinese-language classroom in 2009, an English Programme in 2010, entered the Ministry's World-Class Standard School track in 2012, and added a linguistics gifted stream at upper secondary in 2013. Address 275/14 Thewaphiban Road, Tambon Nai Mueang, Mueang Roi Et 45000; telephone 043-511-795; school@rw.ac.th. This is a Thai-medium school with an English-medium stream inside it, not an international school — the distinction matters for a family weighing it against Silver Fern — but it is a real English Programme, it is fifteen years old, and it is a ten-minute drive from most of the town municipality.

The town's second large state secondary, and the second in the province running an English Programme. Strisuksa operates four special-classroom projects — EP (English Programme), GPS, GPLS and CP — each with its own dedicated page and its own admissions route, and it ran a combined online application system for M1 and M4 entry to all four for the 2569 (2026) academic year, announced on its own site in April 2026. Address 149 Suriyadet Bamrung Road, Tambon Nai Mueang, Mueang Roi Et 45000; public-relations line 043 511 410, secretariat and administration 043 511 202. Its academic office publishes the special-classroom timetable each year; entry to these streams is by examination and the intake is small, so a family arriving mid-year should expect to wait for the February round rather than transfer in.

If you are looking at the cheaper campus belt north of the capital rather than the town, this is the secondary school that serves it — and it is not a fallback. Selaphum Phittayakhom is a Ministry World-Class Standard School and a designated subdistrict quality school, runs the Science Power Ten (Withayasat Phalang Sip) programme, has held its Sepit Math Contest for twenty-three years, and puts its students through CEFR-framed English testing at M1 to M6 through its FLD SPK activity. Address 99 Moo 1, Tambon Khwan Mueang, Amphoe Selaphum, Roi Et 45120; telephone and fax 043-551-396; admissions run online at reg.sapit.ac.th. One trap worth naming: Selaphum district also contains a separate, differently governed school called simply Selaphum School, on its own domain. They are two institutions, not one, and directory listings conflate them.

Below the four schools above, Roi Et runs the standard Thai government system across twenty districts, 193 subdistricts and 2,311 villages under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, plus the vocational track in the town. BAANLYY has verified the three state secondaries named on this page directly against each school's own website, and has not attempted a school-by-school survey of the primary tier or of the outer districts — that remains a limit of our coverage rather than a statement about the province. What we will no longer say, because it was wrong, is that no English Programme could be confirmed here: two of the three verified secondaries run one.