Chiang Mai University
| มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่ | |
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| Motto | "Attānaṃ Damayanti Paṇḍitā" (Pāḷi) ("The wise control themselves") |
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| Type | National |
| Established | June 18, 1964 |
| President | Associate Professor Niwes Nantachit, M.D. |
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Administrative staff
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2,171 (2007) |
| Students | 35,979 (Update 7 May 2015) |
| Location |
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand 18°48′09″N 98°57′06″E / 18.802587°N 98.951556°ECoordinates: 18°48′09″N 98°57′06″E / 18.802587°N 98.951556°E |
| Colors | Purple |
| Affiliations | ASAIHL |
| Website | www.cmu.ac.th |
Chiang Mai University (CMU) (Thai: มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่) is a public research university in northern Thailand founded in 1964. It has a strong emphasis on engineering, science, agriculture, and medicine. Its instructional mission includes undergraduate, graduate, professional and continuing education offered through resident instruction. Its main campus lies between Chiang Mai downtown and Doi Suthep in Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Province.
The university was the first institution of higher education in northern Thailand, and the first provincial university in Thailand.
Chiang Mai University has four campuses, three of them in Chiang Mai and one in Lamphun, which together cover about 3,490 acres (14.1 km2). There are 18 housing complexes located on campus for students attending the university. Seventeen of them are on the main campus and one is on the Mae Hea campus
The main university campus, known as Suan Sak campus (Thai: สวนสัก) or Cherng Doi (Thai: เชิงดอย), lies about five 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 science 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, university buildings were constructed between the trees, with the result that the campus still retains much of its original setting.
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