Assumption University City Campus Launched.

President Dr. Bancha Saenghiran giving his speech at City Campus in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister, President Emeritus and other guests. Deputy Premier H.E. Prof. Dr. Wissanu Krea-Ngam accepting a souvenir from President Dr. Bancha Saenghiran.

Speech by President,
Dr. Bancha Saenghiran

Your Excellency Prof. Dr.Wissanu Krea-Ngam, Deputy Prime Minister of the Royal Thai Government.

On behalf of Assumption University, I express my grateful thanks to you for giving your precious time to preside over the Opening Ceremony of our City Campus.

Assumption University is a higher education institution administered by the Brothers of St. Gabriel which exists to provide education, knowledge and training to develop human resources of the country. It started modestly in 1972 as an institution called Assumption Business Administration College or ABAC with English as the medium of instruction. The University has grown continuously until it is now recognized as the first International University of Thailand. We currently offer 41 Bachelor, 31 Master and 8 Doctorate Degree Programs with a total enrollment of approximately 20,000 including a component of some 2147 international students from 57 countries of the world. Accordingly we contribute more than 500 million bahts annually to the revenues of Thailand and at the same time we save expenditure of several billion bahts a year by preventing or restraining students from pursuing education at foreign institutions abroard.

Assumption University is now operating 2 campuses,one each at Hua Mak and Bang Na and performing 4 main missions of the higher education institutions: l.providing training and instruction, 2.producing research, 3.offering knowledge service to the society and 4.supporting national art and culture.

In launching this new City Campus at the Emporium Tower, our purpose is to expand knowledge services to society and to enlarge educational opportunities according to the Educational Expansion Policies of Thailand. The City Campus has the following facilities: 50-seat seminar room, 56-seat classroom and_an 18 seal common room with modern teaching materials and equipments.

The first program that the new city campus provides is entitled Vietnam Studies, which is administered by the Institute of Asian and African Studies (LAAS), Assumption University. The objective of the course it to propagate knowledge and education about Vietnam including promotion of its language, traditions, culture, economics and society.

Now it is the auspicious time to invite H.E. the Deputy Prime Minister to preside over the Opening Ceremony of Assumption University City Campus and the Vietnam Studies Centre respectively.