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Campus Features, Facilities, and Services

For over 40 years, Siam University has been rising towards international recognition as one of the leading universities in Asia and within the ASEAN community, and will continue to expand its vision to make Siam one of the world’s foremost educational institutions. With its mission in mind, Siam University holds to this vision of continuing to offer the quality education that it has been providing since 1965, for Bangkok, for Thailand, and for the planet we share.

                The campus of Siam University is located within the southwest boundaries of Bangkok on Petkasem Road, and is approximately 6 kilometers from the main financial district of the city. Currently, the campus is comprised of 20 main buildings with a total floor area of roughly 140,000 square meters. In 1999, a new 19-story multipurpose building was built to commemorate the 50^th anniversary of His Majesty, King Bhumibol’s ascension to the throne, who graciously gave it the name, “The Golden Jubilee Building.” This structure contains over 50,000 square meters of classrooms, various laboratories, research centers, and an international conference center with high-tech facilities that are completely wired with a fiber-optic information network. There is also a mini-hotel in this building complex for use in the International Hotel and Tourism Management Program and international guests of the university, as well as a theater, an auditorium and 700 parking spaces. Beside Building 19 is the Garden of Peace, a relaxing, tree-covered park with food and beverage stands, a large fountain and many places to unwind between classes.

Library Facilities

                The Siam University Central Library contains over 200,000 textbooks, magazines, periodicals, academic journals and technological books, of which many are in English. The library is conveniently located on the second and third floors of Building 12, and can accommodate approximately 1,000 users at any time in its air-conditioned reading rooms, individual learning rooms and group discussion rooms. It also features a large computer lab with high-speed internet access, an online-database, movies, as well as other audio/visual materials, and computer software. A separate Graduate School Library is located on the 3^rd floor, a Finance and Banking Lab, and a M.B.A. and Business Library donated by the Stock Exchange of Thailand, is located on the 6^th floor of Building 19, The Golden Jubilee Building.

Computer Facilities

                The Siam University Computer Center is operated by Campus Network, and is linked by fiber-optic cables with six other computer centers located in various University buildings. Located in Building 15, an Internet center containing over 350 desktop computers with high-speed access to the World Wide Web is available for all students. In addition, most of the campus buildings and courtyards are covered by wireless Internet access.

The Cultural Center

                Located on the top floor of Building 4 decorated with a traditional Thai-style rooftop (thuk song thai), Siam University’s Cultural-Center houses valuable documents and culture-related artifacts. The center preserves several traditional artifacts, musical instruments, masks and paintings, restores and then displays them for all to see. It extends this preservation in sponsoring various exhibitions, printing related documents, and offers Thai-style music and traditional Thai dancing classes that are performed across the city. The Cultural-Center is open to students, faculty, staff, and all campus visitors.

Guidance and Placement Division

                Siam offers job-placement services to graduating students to find jobs appropriate to their fields of study. The Guidance and Placement Division office is located in Building 4, and also has offices on the ground floor of Building 19.

Postal Services

                Conveniently located on campus, The Siam University Post Office offers: general post services, international fax, money orders, parcel-post delivery services, general postal supply sales and mailbox rental.

Commercial Banking Services

                TMB PCL, Krungthai, and Bangkok Banks, Siam University Branch, offer convenient on-campus express electronic banking, full service ATMs, financial and banking office services, and 8 ATMs located across campus for student and staff usage.

Bookshop and Stationary Store

                A University SE-ED Bookstore is located in the center of campus, selling a wide range of books, magazines, textbooks, stationary, gifts and office supplies.

Financial Aid and Student Loans

                Services such as military study, railway fee reductions, student loans, and scholarships for qualified students and those with exceptional high school grades are provided by Siam University.

English Learning Center 

                In 2003, the English Learning Center (E.L.C.) was established to enhance the level of English proficiency among native Thai students before they graduate from Siam University and enter into the working world. Siam’s president, Ponchai Mongkhonanit, created this directive to promote the university’s standard of excellence and further prepare the student body for international communication in the new millennium. The E.L.C. staffs qualified native-speakers of English from North America and Europe to instruct conversational English, and teaches levels five and six of the six level English curriculums.

Siam University Buildings

The university campus is comprised of 20 buildings and the following are some details of each:

• 1.  Administration Building - houses a radio broadcasting studio, the Public Relations Department, the Office of Finance and the Accounting Department.

• 2.  An original university building - contains classrooms, language laboratories, teachers’ offices, a SE-ED Siam University Bookstore, the Siam University Post Office, a TMB PCL (Siam University Branch), the International Business Office and a Muay Thai Boxing and Judo Gym on the top floor.

• 3.  The Dr. Narong Mongkhonvanit Memorial Building - contains seven computer laboratories, a Hotel and Tourism operating room, the Graduate School Library, a teaching and learning-facilities center, teachers offices, classrooms and the Purchasing Department

• 4.  The Siam Cultural Center - a three-story building, housing the Cultural Center, a Hotel and Tourism operating room, a television operating room, physics laboratories, a demonstration court for legal practice, photography and movie production house, teachers offices and classrooms. On the ground floor is a canteen.

• 5.6. 7. The School of Engineering Operation Buildings 1, 2, 3 - used for engineering course instruction and experiments.

• 8.  The School of Engineering Main Building - contains a mechanical-engineering laboratory, a computer mechanical-analysis laboratory, a liquid-mechanics laboratory, a design and CAD-CAM laboratory, a power-electricity laboratory, an electronic laboratory, the office of academic training and services, teachers’ rooms and classrooms.

• 9.  The School of Engineering Operation Building 4 - used for engineering course instruction and experiments.

• 11.  The Science and Technology Innovation Center - contains offices, classrooms and labs and is a central location for the development and display on innovative inventions and technological creations from the Engineering and Science Departments.

• 12.  The Royal Majesty Jubilee Building - The name is in commemoration of the 60^th birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. This ten-story building houses an auxiliary Office of the President, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Office of Educational Services, the Central Library, a 1200 seat auditorium, a seminar room, a demonstration room for banking practice, a cafeteria, lecture rooms, a small meeting room and teachers offices.

• 13.  The ATM Kiosk

• 14.  The Science Complex Building - housing the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Nursing, teachers’ offices, seminar rooms, food-science laboratories, chemical laboratories and the computer center for engineering and sciences.

• 15.  The 30^th Anniversary Building is a five-story building with 3,500 square meters of space containing lecture rooms, an Internet center with more than 300 personal computers, classrooms and teachers’ offices.

• 16.   Main Canteen - a full service food court.

• 17.  The Students’ Clubs Building - houses the Guidance and Placement Division, the Office of the Student Union, a 7-Eleven convenience store, offices of student clubs and the University Guest House.

• 18.  The Electrical Engineering Operations Building – contains a power/electricity experiment and analysis laboratory, a fiber-optic cable communications system, a computer hardware operating room and an electronic laboratory.

• 19.  The Golden Jubilee Building - The tallest building on campus, constructed in 1999 commemorating King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s 50th anniversary on the throne. This building contains the admissions office, the University Council Conference Room, the Office of the President, the Office of Graduate Schools, the University Theater, the Siam Heritage Lounge, a small demonstration hotel, a 700 car parking garage, a research room, lecture rooms and additional Placement Division services, as well as houses the Southeast Asia office of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP).

• 20.  Siam University Sports Complex and Auditorium- the newest building on the Siam University Campus with an area of 2,400 square meters and a seating capacity of over 1,000. It features an air-conditioned fitness center with the latest equipment, full-sized basketball, volleyball and badminton courts and table tennis facilities. The complex is also used as an auditorium for on-campus conventions and special functions.