Chiang Mai University

The University of Chiang Mai ( Thai มหาวิทยาลัย เชียงใหม่, RTGS: Mahawitthayalai Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai University English, in short: CMU) is the leading public university in northern Thailand.

History

The Chiang Mai University was the first tertiary education institution in the north of Thailand and also the first university outside the capital, Bangkok. The University was founded in January 1964 with three faculties of science, social studies and the humanities.

General

Today, the University of Chiang May 17 faculties with a total of 107 departments and a graduate school. Approximately 25,000 students can enroll in over 250 courses of study, this also includes two international Bachelor and eighteen international master's and doctoral programs. The international courses are taught in English and offered in social science, medicine, and science and technology. President of the university is Pongsak Angkasith

Faculties

The Chiang Mai University currently has 20 faculties and a college with 95 undergraduate degree programs, 135 master programs, 45 doctoral programs and 41 additional graduate studies. Of all the courses are 22 international programs.

Faculties:

  • Faculty of Agriculture
  • Faculty of Agricultural Industry
  • Faculty of Architecture
  • Faculty of Dentistry
  • Faculty of Business Administration
  • Faculty of Dentistry
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of Engineering Science
  • Faculty of the Fine Arts
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Medicine
  • School of Nursing
  • Faculty of Pharmacy
  • Faculty of Science
  • Faculty of Social Studies
  • Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
  • Faculty of Mass Communication
  • College of Art, Media and Technology

Campus

The Chiang Mai University has four campuses, which together comprise about 249 acres.

The central campus is located about five kilometers west of the city center of Chiang Mai below the mountain Doi Suthep. On three sides it is surrounded by shopping streets, on the fourth side is the Zoo of Chiang Mai. Since there was here in 1960 still original forest and was placed on environmental value, the university buildings were built between the trees, so that today dominates a tranquil impression. Something closer to the city center is the complex of Medicine, where the faculties of medicine, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy are summarized. This is also where the hospital Maharat Nakon Chiang Mai, called by the natives Suan Dok.

About five miles south of the center of the university is the campus Mae Ha, where the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine and for the agricultural industry are located.

The latest acquisition of the University of Chiang Mai is the Baan Bua Sri Campus Lamphun Province Lamphun. This campus is located about 55 kilometers south of the main area near the industrial center of Lamphun. It covers together more area than the other campus and is currently (2008) expanded. This is where further research and teaching facilities for nursing, architecture, engineering, humanities, social sciences, agribusiness, agriculture, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, natural sciences and for graduate school.

Publications

Since 2002, the University of Chiang May brings out the Chiang Mai University Journal, which is published twice a year and contains original contributions to science, technology and humanities in English. In 2007, the journal was split into two separate sister publications (see Related links):

  • Chiang Mai University Journal of Natural Sciences
  • Chiang Mai University Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities

Famous people

  • Hans Penth (1937-2009), German historian ( History of Lanna )
  • Nidhi Eoseewong ( born 1940 ), historian
  • Suthep Thaugsuban ( b. 1949 ), political science; Secretary General of the Democratic Party ( 2005-11 ), Deputy Prime Minister ( 2008-11 ), leader of the political protests 2013/14
  • Krisana Kraisintu (* 1952), pharmacy; Researcher in the field of AIDS therapy
  • Apirak Kosayodhin (* 1961), food science and food technology; 2004-2008 Governor of Bangkok
  • Yingluck Shinawatra (born 1967 ), political science; Since 2011, Prime Minister of Thailand

Ranking

In the QS World University Ranking 2013, the University of Chiang Mai is one in almost all subject groups to Thailand's leading universities. In history, mathematics, and agricultural and forestry science they took second place. In the latter area they were in fact among the top 100 universities in the world.

Chiang Mai Province QS World University Rankings National Institute of Development Administration Pathumwan Institute of Technology Suranaree University of Technology Rajamangala University of Technology Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna Asian Institute of Technology Asia-Pacific International University Dusit Thani College Mahanakorn University of Technology Stamford International University (Thailand) Tapee-College Webster University Chulabhorn Research Institute Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment Mahapanya Vidayalai Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology Thailand Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
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