Mahasarakham University
Mahasarakham University (MSU) (Thai: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม; RTGS: Mahawitthayalai Mahasarakham), pronounced: má-hăa wít-tá-yaa-lai má-hăa-săa-rá-kaam) is a Thai public university in Maha Sarakham province, about 470 kilometres from Bangkok. In 2017 it enrolled 39,000 students.
มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม | ||||||||||||
Other name | MSU | |||||||||||
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| Motto | Bahūnam Paṇḍito Jīve (ผู้มีปัญญา พึงเป็นอยู่เพื่อมหาชน) | |||||||||||
Motto in English | Public devotion is a virtue of the learned | |||||||||||
| Type | Public | |||||||||||
| Established | 1994 (1963 as Mahasarakham Teachers Training College) | |||||||||||
Academic affiliations | Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning | |||||||||||
| President | Sampan Rittidech | |||||||||||
Academic staff | 1,268 (2016) | |||||||||||
Administrative staff | 2,316 (2016) | |||||||||||
| Students | 39,000 (2023) | |||||||||||
| Location | , Thailand 16°11′58″N 103°17′02″E | |||||||||||
| Campus | Urban and regional | |||||||||||
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| Website | inter | |||||||||||
MSU is the only Thai university to offer postgraduate programs in paleontology and a Bachelor of Arts in the Khmer language. It was the first Isan university to offer a BA accounting and the second to offer PhD courses in the same subject. Its Faculty of Education, the flagship of MSU, was voted Thailand's Best Education Faculty in 2010 by the National Education Office.
The university is the first Thai higher education institution rated under the QS Stars System for excellence in higher education. It has become one of the top 20 universities in Thailand based on the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.