Schools & universities in Satun.

The province's largest and best-resourced state secondary, at 318 Moo 6 in Khlong Khut subdistrict just outside the town, under the Songkhla-Satun secondary education area office and led by director Arun Towanlong. It holds an IQA Award at the highest grade in the large-school category for the 2567 academic year, and — the part that matters most to a relocating family — it runs three selective special-classroom streams, each with its own entrance examination and its own fee. For the 2569 (2026) intake, published on the school's own admissions site: at M1, SMART (the IPST and POSN science curriculum, 36 places), SMTE (science, maths, technology and environment, 30 places) and MEP, the Mini English Programme (30 places); at M4, SMTE again (30 places). Each stream charges a term fee, and the three fees are not the same — the English programme costs materially more than the two science streams. We have withdrawn the specific figures we previously printed here: they are set annually, they were already a year from going stale, and this site does not publish per-school price schedules. The school posts the current numbers alongside the application dates on its own admissions page, linked in the sources below. Places are contested, not purchased — each stream sets a GPA floor and sits a competitive paper.

This is the single most useful correction on this page. MEP teaches the Ministry of Education curriculum in English rather than an overseas curriculum, so it is not an international school and does not lead to an IB or an A-level — but it is a genuine English-medium track inside the province, and it exists, which is more than most guides to Satun will tell you. Entry is by examination weighted 50 per cent English, 15 per cent science, 15 per cent maths and 20 per cent interview, with a GPA floor of 2.75 overall and 2.75 in foreign languages. The 2569 timetable ran applications 9 to 13 February, the M1 papers on 21 February and results on 26 February at the school's Andaman auditorium. Confirm the current year's dates and fees with the school directly.

Beyond the flagship, the Office of the Basic Education Commission network covers all seven districts, with secondary provision in the district centres. Pimanphithayasan School, at 11 Satun Thani Road in Phiman subdistrict in the town itself, is the province's second provincial secondary — coeducational, M1 to M6, founded under the programme that upgraded Satun's secondary schools. Teaching across the network is in Thai to the national curriculum. For a family already speaking Thai, or with children young enough to acquire it, it is a workable and free option; for an older child arriving without the language it is a hard landing, and that is worth being honest about rather than optimistic.

Satun's population is 76.77 per cent Muslim, and religious education is a well-established and mainstream part of schooling here in a way it is not in most of Thailand — private Islamic schools teaching alongside the national curriculum are ordinary rather than exceptional. Two by name: Saeng Prathip Witthaya Foundation School at 22 Moo 12, Chalung subdistrict, Mueang Satun, and Islam Witthaya Foundation School at 164 Moo 2, Khuan Sato subdistrict, Khuan Don. The sector is regulated by the Satun provincial private education office. The province's long orientation toward Kedah gives the tradition deep roots, even though only 9.9 per cent of the population now speaks Malay as a mother tongue and Southern Thai is the majority language. For a Muslim family relocating, this is a genuine and underrated advantage of the province.

We previously called this a network of three. The Satun provincial vocational education office's own list runs to five, and the two we were missing are the interesting ones. The three public colleges: Satun Technical College at 217 Sunlakanukun Road, Phiman subdistrict, Mueang Satun 91000 (0-7471-1107 and 0-7472-4237), a constituent college of the Institute of Vocational Education: Southern Region 3; Satun College of Agriculture and Technology at 4 Moo 2, Prachasongkhro Road, Khuan Kalong subdistrict, Khuan Kalong 91130 (074-791-013), under the southern agricultural vocational institute; and La-ngu Industrial and Community Education College at 43 Moo 14, La-ngu subdistrict, La-ngu 91110 (074-781-898). Alongside them the same office lists two private members — Andaman Anatolian Technology College in Khuan Don, which has its own card below, and Santisart Suksa School. Between them they cover the trades, marine and fishing work, agriculture, business, hospitality and now shipbuilding — the realistic post-secondary route for young people who stay in the province.

This corrects the shape of the whole page. Satun Technical College is one of nine constituent colleges of the Institute of Vocational Education: Southern Region 3, and in this system it is the institute, not the college, that confers degrees — a Bachelor of Technology, the two-year continuing route taken after a higher vocational certificate. The institute's office is at 7 Kanchanawanit Road, Tambon Hat Yai, Amphoe Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110 (074 212 515 and 074 212 517), and it publishes a Satun-specific application page; the college in Mueang Satun staffs a unit whose first listed duty is to build and run bachelor's-level technology curricula. So degree study is not confined to La-ngu, and a school-leaver in the town is not automatically a school-leaver who has to move. The honest limit: membership of the institute is a permission, not a timetable. Which subjects are actually seated at the Satun college in a given year is set by the institute's annual admission round and we did not establish it — confirm it with the institute on the numbers above, or through the vocational admissions portal at admission.vec.go.th, before you plan around it.

A private college in a fourth district, backed by local private and community funding and built as a Thailand–Türkiye cooperation with Turkish universities and Fatoni University as mentors. Its teaching building was formally opened on Sunday 18 February 2024 by Wan Muhamad Noor Matha, President of the National Assembly, with the governor of Satun receiving and the licence-holder, Abdullah Akem of the Ibnu Auf Foundation, reporting; delegations from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Malaysia, Indonesia and Türkiye attended. The teaching is built around marine science, Islamic studies and modern technology: at vocational certificate level shipbuilding, logistics and accounting, and at higher certificate level shipbuilding technology and tourism. Two things stated as at that announcement rather than as today's fact: an intention to become a higher-education institution under the name Andaman Institute of Technology, and a longer-term provincial ambition to establish a Satun University. Neither was confirmed as having happened, and this page will not describe a plan as a campus. What is verifiable now is a functioning private college, in Khuan Don, teaching shipbuilding in a province with a working coast.

Ramkhamhaeng is how a great many working Thai adults take a degree part-time, so it is worth answering precisely rather than vaguely. Both of its regional lists were checked and Satun is on neither: it is not one of the 23 regional campuses, and it is not one of the 41 examination centres across 39 provinces. The three nearest are centre 19 at the Trang campus (075 501164-7), centre 20 at Woranari Chaloem School in Songkhla (074 314415), and centre 41 at Hat Yai Technical College (074 212300 ext 101). Note where that last one is: 7 Kanchanawanit Road, Hat Yai — the same address as the vocational institute that confers Satun Technical College's degrees. One street in Hat Yai answers two of this province's higher-education questions, which is a fair summary of how Satun's education geography actually works.

Three things a family or an adult learner might reasonably expect, checked and honestly absent. There is no college of dramatic arts here: the Bunditpatanasilpa Institute, under the Ministry of Culture rather than the higher-education ministry, publishes twelve colleges nationally and none is in Satun — the two nearest are in Phatthalung and Nakhon Si Thammarat. There is no Ramkhamhaeng branch or examination centre, as set out above. And there is no full international-curriculum school, which has its own card below. Absences stated by name are more useful than a page that simply never mentions the thing.

A separate institution from the vocational colleges and often confused with them. Satun Community College sits at Moo 4 in Ketri subdistrict in Mueang Satun and awards three-year associate degrees across seven subjects: management, community management, tourism and services, local government, early childhood development, public administration and digital business technology. It publishes its intakes and its online application at stcc.ac.th, and it has run scholarship places across all seven subjects. For an adult already living in the province and wanting a qualification without relocating, this is the practical route.

The province does have a degree-awarding university campus, and it is in La-ngu rather than the capital. Songkhla Rajabhat University's Satun campus sits in La-ngu subdistrict, La-ngu district 91110 — the address is printed on the campus's own contact page in both Thai and English, with the campus office on +66 84 689 8404, weekdays 08:30 to 16:30, and the College of Innovation and Management reachable on 074-260200 ext 8100. It teaches full four-year bachelor's programmes on site: a Bachelor of Education in Social Studies, a Bachelor of Business Administration in Innovation Management, a Bachelor of Arts in Tourism, and a Bachelor of Technology in Agricultural Innovation for Sustainability. Two honest qualifications. It is a satellite campus of a Songkhla university rather than a free-standing provincial university, so its subject range is narrow; and the agricultural innovation degree is published as teaching its first and second years at the Songkhla campus, not in Satun. Read it together with the vocational degree route in the card below rather than on its own: between the two, the province has an academic degree site at La-ngu and a technology degree route running through Mueang, which is a different province from the one most guides describe. For an academic subject outside those four fields a school-leaver still relocates — most often to Prince of Songkla University at Hat Yai, about a hundred kilometres east.

BAANLYY has re-tested this in Thai and it holds: there is no full international-curriculum school in Satun. For a family that requires an overseas track — IB, British or American — the options are in Hat Yai and Songkhla, about a hundred kilometres east, which means a boarding or weekly-boarding arrangement, or living in Hat Yai and treating Satun as a weekend province. But read that alongside the MEP card above rather than on its own, because the two are different questions. If you need an internationally recognised leaving qualification, Satun cannot supply it. If what you actually need is English-medium teaching so a child is not drowning in Thai from day one, the province has 30 places a year at its flagship school. Work out which of those two families you are before you rule the province out.