Thammasat gets 5-star QS rating

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Thammasat gets 5-star QS rating
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Thammasat University has enhanced its standing as one of Thailand's leading world-standard institutions.

"Thammasat University has reached the five-star level of internationalisation in the Quacquarelli Symonds' assessment," rector Somkid Lertpaitoon said last week.

An international curriculum has been provided for all programmes in preparation for the Asean Community. It aims to increase foreign students and teachers to 20 per cent next year, Somkid, an associate professor, said.

The university plans to develop teaching curricula to support both Thai and English, as well as other international languages by cooperating bilaterally and multilaterally with more than 300 universities from 40 countries all over the world, including the US, Japan, China and Australia, as well as those in Europe and Asean.

There are student exchanges, research projects by teachers and other academic projects under the terms of this cooperation.

Students can transfer their credits if they are interested in courses not offered by the university.

Almost a hundred of the 300 curricula at Thammasat are international, English and bilingual - for law, medicine and engineering programmes at undergraduate level. At master's level are international business, urban design and development programmes.

Quacquarelli Symonds has rules that the university must cooperate and do research with no less than 50 out of 500 universities approved by QS; no less than 25 per cent of all curricula must be international programmes, and no less than 20 per cent of students must come from other foreign institutions. Plus, the university must have facilities for foreign students, and personnel of various races.

The university now has 1,400 students both full-curriculum and exchange, and more than 200 foreign teachers, he said.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Thammasat-gets-5-star-QS-rating-30273000.html


-- The Nation 2015-11-16

[eliotness]

So they use 200 farang teachers and have achieved excellent results. Pity the latest statement from the Education Ministry seems to go against the obvious.

[ChrisY1]

So they use 200 farang teachers and have achieved excellent results. Pity the latest statement from the Education Ministry seems to go against the obvious.

No problems in Universities employing foreign teachers.....

[LannaGuy]

I have always admired Thammasat and congratulate them. They always hold the candle of democracy and freedom of thought aloft for all to see.

[trogers]

So they use 200 farang teachers and have achieved excellent results. Pity the latest statement from the Education Ministry seems to go against the obvious.

The Education Ministry is cutting budget also for obvious reasons...?

[jacky54]

The 5 star rating is for a University they rate at 601 in the world with other Thai Universities above them. It is only 4 stars on the QS site. Times education appears not to rate them at all and only has King Mongkuts at 401, nothing to boast about

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2015#sorting=rank+region=+country=131+faculty=+stars=false+search=

Edited November 16, 2015 by jacky54

[casualbiker]

I have always admired Thammasat and congratulate them. They always hold the candle of democracy and freedom of thought aloft for all to see.

This is the same Thammasat that couldn't/wouldn't sign off on the students degrees because the administration were having a childish spat. Right?