What PSU Surat Thani actually awards
Bachelor's and postgraduate degrees of Prince of Songkla University, taught and conferred through this campus.
Awarding body: Prince of Songkla University (five-campus system). The qualification is conferred by that body, not by the site itself — a distinction worth checking on any transcript or visa document.
On the founding year: PSU adopted the policy to create the campus in 1990, but the university's own founding day for this campus is 3 December 1993, when the foundation stone was laid.
As published by the institution: 31 Moo 6, Makham Tia, Mueang Surat Thani 84000.
Prince of Songkla University, Surat Thani Campus at a glance
Prince of Songkla University was named by King Bhumibol Adulyadej in honour of his father, Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkla, and is southern Thailand's first university. PSU counts its own age from the first Prince of Songkla University Act, gazetted 12 March 1968 and in force from 13 March 1968 -- 13 March is the university's founding day, and PSU's Hall of History states plainly that the university's age is the current year minus B.E. 2511. BAANLYY previously gave 1967; the university's own reckoning is used here instead.
The Surat Thani Campus began as a policy decision in 1990, when PSU judged the province ready in economic, social and resource terms to carry a campus. The date the university itself commemorates, however, is 3 December 1993, when HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana, Princess of Naradhiwas, presided over the laying of the foundation stone for the first teaching building and the project office. PSU describes that as the beginning of the development of the Khao Tha Phet site into a centre of higher education, and marks 3 December each year as the campus's founding day; 2025 was its 35th anniversary counted from 1990.
The campus address is 31 Moo 6, Makham Tia subdistrict, Mueang district -- Khao Tha Phet is the name of the site, Makham Tia the subdistrict it sits in, and both are correct. PSU Witthayanusorn Suratthani School, a university-run secondary school, shares the same address; it is a school rather than a degree site, but for a relocating family it means campus and schooling sit on one plot.
Notable facts
- Part of Prince of Songkla University's five-campus system (Hat Yai, Pattani, Phuket, Trang, Surat Thani) -- southern Thailand's first and one of its most established public university networks.
- 1990 was the policy year; 3 December 1993 is the campus's own founding day, marked from the foundation stone laid by HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana.
- Sited at Khao Tha Phet in Makham Tia subdistrict, sharing its plot with PSU Witthayanusorn Suratthani School.
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