Suratthani Technical College.

What SRTC actually awards

Vocational certificates and higher diplomas in its own right, plus Bachelor of Technology degrees conferred by the Institute of Vocational Education: Southern Region 1.

Awarding body: Institute of Vocational Education: Southern Region 1 (IVESR 1). The qualification is conferred by that body, not by the site itself — a distinction worth checking on any transcript or visa document.

As published by the institution: 143 Donnok Road, Talat, Mueang Surat Thani 84000. Tel 077-272168 / 077-273168.

Suratthani Technical College at a glance

Nothing in this college's name says "degree", which is exactly why it was missing from this directory. Suratthani Technical College is one of eleven colleges grouped into the Institute of Vocational Education: Southern Region 1, constituted under section 13 of the Vocational Education Act B.E. 2551 (2008) and covering Chumphon, Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat and Phatthalung. The institute -- not the college -- is the body that confers the bachelor's degree, so degree-level study happens on a campus whose sign reads "technical college".

On the institute's published programme list this college carries four Bachelor of Technology programmes: Automotive Technology, Electrical Technology, Electronics Technology and Rubber Technology. That is the largest set of any college in the institute, more than the institute's own host college in Nakhon Si Thammarat, and the Rubber Technology programme is the only one of its kind in the group -- a sensible fit for a province whose economy runs on rubber and palm oil. Programme lists change; confirm the current intake with the college before relying on it.

The college's own departments go wider than the degree list, and two are worth naming for anyone reading the province's economy: a rubber and polymer technology department, and a department for railway system control and maintenance -- Surat Thani sits on the Southern Line, and rolling-stock and track work is a live local trade. The college also hosts the Surat Thani Provincial Vocational Education Office and an upper-southern regional centre for vocational workforce development, so its role reaches beyond its own students.

It is at 143 Donnok Road in Talat subdistrict -- inside the city, on one of its main north-south roads, not on the outskirts.

Notable facts

• Degree-level study on a site whose name gives no hint of it: the Bachelor of Technology is conferred by the Institute of Vocational Education: Southern Region 1, of which this college is a member.
• Four bachelor's programmes on the institute's published list -- Automotive, Electrical, Electronics and Rubber Technology -- the largest set of any of the institute's eleven colleges.
• Rubber Technology is unique to this college within the institute, matching the province's rubber and palm-oil economy.
• Departments include railway system control and maintenance, and electric vehicles, alongside the traditional trades.
• Hosts the Surat Thani Provincial Vocational Education Office and an upper-southern regional workforce coordination centre.

Sources & References

• Ministry of Education, Thailand

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