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Chiang Mai University
มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่
Chiang Mai University seal
Established 1964
Type Public
President Prof. Pongsak Angkasith
Faculty 2,171 (2007)[1]
Students 31,992 (2007)[2]
Location Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
18°48′09″N 98°57′06″E / 18.802587°N 98.951556°E / 18.802587; 98.951556
Colors Purple
Affiliations ASAIHL
Website www.cmu.ac.th

Chiang Mai University (Thai: มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่) was founded in January 1964, in a Royal Charter granted by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej. CMU, or Mor Chor, is the first institute of higher education in Northern Thailand, and the first provincial university in Thailand.

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[edit] History

CMU Main Entrance

Since opening in 1964, with the three founding Faculties of Science, Social Sciences, and Humanities, CMU has grown in size and stature in terms of physical locations, the range of disciplines offered, and student enrollment. Today, CMU has seventeen Faculties with 107 individual departments, and a Graduate School. Currently it offers a total of 253 programs: 3 Certificate Programs, 87 undergraduate programs and 163 postgraduate and graduate diploma programs, to more than twenty-five thousand students. Two international Bachelors program and 18 international Masters and Doctoral programs taught in English are currently offered to international students by Social Sciences, Health Sciences, and Science and Technology faculties.

CMU has 146 collaborative agreements with foreign universities, institutes and international organizations in 27 countries. Projects and programs covered by these Agreements and Memoranda include academic collaboration, the secondment of thesis advisors and project consultants, joint research, faculty staff and student exchange, curriculum development, joint seminars, and information exchange.

[edit] Faculty

[edit] Schools within Chiang Mai University


[edit] Campuses

Engineering Building

CMU has three campuses in Chiang Mai and one in Lamphun, which together cover about 3,490 acres (14.1 km2) of land.

The main University campus, Suan Sak campus (Thai: สวนสัก), also known as Cherng Doi (Thai: เชิงดอย), lies about 5 kilometres west of the city center. Set against Doi Suthep, the campus occupies a 725-acre (2.93 km2) site, bounded on three sides by main shopping streets and on the fourth by the Chiang Mai Zoo. The campus includes the University’s administrative centre, the Science, Engineering, Humanities, and Social Sciences faculties, Political Science and Public Administration, Law, the Graduate School, all of the Campus Resource Facilities and Services and major sports facilities. An attractive feature of this campus is the Ang Kaew Reservoir. Constructed to supply water for the University, it is also a recreational area for campus residents and the local community.

In the 1960s, the area was still forested. With conservation in mind, the University buildings were constructed between the trees, with the result that the campus still retains much of its original setting.

Medical Faculty Building

Still within the main campus, but a little closer to the city, the Health Sciences complex, the Suan Dok campus (Thai: สวนดอก), occupies a 110-acre (0.45 km2) site which includes Faculties of Medicine, Associated Medical Sciences, Nursing, Dentistry and Pharmacy, and Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital, known locally as Suan Dok, the largest teaching hospital in Northern Thailand.[citation needed]

About 5 km south of the main campus, the 864-acre (3.50 km2) Mae Hea campus (Thai: แม่เหียะ) is home to the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine and Agro-Industry. Energy Research and Development Institute (ERDI), the university center for renewable energy (mainly on biogas and biomass) and energy efficiency improvement center, moved from the main campus to Mae Hea campus since January 2009. This center is set as a national "biogas center of excellence", organizing biogas activities, especially biogas in swine farms.[citation needed]

The University’s latest acquisition is the Si Bua Ban campus (Thai: ศรีบัวบาน). Located in Amphoe Mueang Lamphun, Lamphun Province, about 55 kilometres south of Chiang Mai, on a 1,890-acre (7.6 km2) site close to the Lamphun industrial centre. Most of area of the campus is hills and forests.[3] The campus is currently under development. When complete, it will provide additional training and research facilities for the Faculties of Nursing, Architecture, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences, Agro-Industries, Agriculture, Pharmacy,Veterinary Medicine, Science, and the Graduate School.[citation needed]

[edit] Notable alumni

  • Professor Dr. Kasem Wattanachai , Councilor of The Privy Council of Thailand from 2001 - Present
  • Jaturon Chaisang , Former Deputy Prime Minister from 2002 - 2006
  • Suthep Teuksuban , Deputy Prime Minister from 2008 - Present
  • Apirak Kosayothin, The Governor of Bangkok from 2004 - 2008
  • Captain Duaentemduang Na Chiangmai , Mayor of Chiang Mai from 2007-Present
  • Dr. Krisana Kraisintu, Pharmacist and former Director of the Government Pharmaceutical Organization’s Research and Development Institute
  • Suraat Thongniramol , Deputy Undersecretary of Ministry of Interior
  • Dr. Thawat Suntrajarn , Director-General. Department of Disease Control. Ministry of Public Health
  • Samart Rajpolsit , Former Deputy Governor of Bangkok from 2004 - 2006
  • Jaroen Malaroj or Mala Khamchan , The S.E.A. Write award 1991 Writer

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.mua.go.th/infodata/50/teacher50.xls (Thai)
  2. ^ http://www.mua.go.th/infodata/50/all_2550.xls (Thai)
  3. ^ ข้อมูลพื้นฐานของพื้นที่เขตการศึกษามหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่ จังหวัดลำพูน (Thai)

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