Monday, July 11, 2011

History of Graduate College, KMUTNB

King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok or KMUTNB as the abbreviation name was the former name of King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok (KMITNB) according to the status of the university that has been changed from government sector to autonomous sector by the KMUTNB ACT in B.E. 2550.
Graduate studies of KMUTNB was first started in master's degree by the German Government Agreement, contract number 5, signed on March 30, 1971. It was given that master's degree course in KMUTNB, and the first department to take this opportunity was Mechanical Department of Faculty of Technical Education and Science (the faculty of Technical Education nowadays). The German Government supported the teaching aids, experts, and scholarships for the lecturers.
In the academic year of 1979. the first group of lecturers who got the scholarships graduated in master's degree in the curriculum of Mechanical Technology, department of Mechanical Technology, faculty of Technical Education and Science, and followed by another curriculums. Since then the university had the idea that it was worthy to found Graduate College as a faculty to operate about graduate studies and to act as a central office to take charge of controlling graduate studies, coordinate and support the operations of the department that held graduate studies. So Graduate College was founded officially on May 21, 1986 and it was announced in Government Gazette, book number 103, section 87, B.E. 2529.

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