Prince of Songkla University

Prince of Songkla University, known in Thai as มหาวิทยาลัยสงขลานครินทร์ and romanised as Mahawitthayalai Songkhla Nakharin, is a public university in southern Thailand and the first university established in that region of the country.宋卡王子大学（泰语 มหาวิทยาลัยสงขลานครินทร์，罗马化为 Mahawitthayalai Songkhla Nakharin，简称 PSU）是泰国南部的一所公立大学，也是该地区设立的第一所大学。

Established by an act of parliament in 1968 and named by King Bhumibol Adulyadej in honour of his father Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, the Prince of Songkla, it has grown into a five-campus institution spread across the southern provinces.该校依 1968 年国会立法设立，由普密蓬阿杜德国王以其父宋卡王子玛希敦阿杜德之名命名，此后发展为横跨南部诸府的五个校区。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 851-900 band, the ranking position for which this entry is written, while it has long been counted among the top ten universities of Thailand.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校列入第 851-900 位，本条目即据此档位收录，同时它长期以来稳居泰国前十大学之列。

History

• In 1962 the Department of Provincial Administration was assigned by the Thai government, working through the Southern Development Committee, to begin a project to set up a university in southern Thailand.1962 年，泰国内政部地方行政厅奉政府之命，经由南部发展委员会启动在泰国南部设立一所大学的计划。

• The project was framed within the Southern Development Plan, a national programme that sought to extend public services, including higher education, beyond Bangkok into the provinces of the south.该计划被纳入南部发展方案的框架，这项国家工程力图把包括高等教育在内的公共服务从曼谷延伸到南部各府。

• In 1965 the cabinet approved in principle that the main campus of the new university would stand at Ruesamilae, an urban area of Pattani near the coast.1965 年，内阁原则上批准新大学主校区设于北大年府临近海岸的市区勒萨米勒。

• Because the Pattani site abutted the sea, very high humidity and sea-water vapour would have made maintenance of engineering laboratory equipment prohibitive, prompting a search for a new site.由于北大年校址紧邻大海，极高的湿度与海水汽气会使工程实验设备的维护成本令人却步，遂另寻新址。

• After a long search it was decided that the Faculty of Engineering should instead be located in Hat Yai District of Songkhla Province, farther from the immediate coastline.经过长期勘查，校方最终决定将工学院设于宋卡府合艾县，此处远离直接临海地带。

• Lady Atthakraweesunthorn agreed to donate a plot of land totalling 690 rai, roughly 276 acres, at Tambon Korhong in Hat Yai District for the new engineering campus.阿塔卡拉维顺通夫人允诺捐出位于合艾县哥洪镇共 690 莱、约 276 英亩的一片土地，作为新建的工程校区。

• In 1968 the National Assembly of Thailand passed the Prince of Songkla University Act, which gave the institution its legal foundation as a university.1968 年，泰国国会通过《宋卡王子大学法》，为该校作为大学的地位奠定法律依据。

• That Act took effect on 13 March, a date the university thereafter proclaims as its Foundation Day and commemorates each year.该法于 3 月 13 日生效，此后大学便将此日定为其创校纪念日并年年举行纪念。

• In 1969 construction began on the Hat Yai campus on the donated land at Tambon Korhong, turning the site into the working heart of the university.1969 年，基于哥洪镇捐赠土地上的合艾校区开工建设，使此地成为大学运作的核心。

• On 5 July 1971, when the new site was partly completed, about two hundred students and staff members of the Faculty of Engineering moved from Pattani to Hat Yai.1971 年 7 月 5 日，当新址部分落成时，约 200 名工学院师生从北大年迁往合艾。

• The Pattani campus had been laid out in 1968 as the first permanent site of the university, and it remains one of its five campuses to this day.北大年校区于 1968 年辟为该校第一处常设校址，至今仍为其五个校区之一。

• The Hat Yai campus, opened in 1971, became the main campus of the university and now carries more than fifty percent of its students.于 1971 年启用的合艾校区成为大学主校区，如今容纳逾半数的在校学生。

• A third campus at Phuket was established in 1977, extending the university to the western coast along the Andaman Sea.1977 年设立普吉校区，将大学版图扩展到临安达曼海的西海岸。

• Surat Thani became the site of a fourth campus in 1990, and Trang a fifth in 1991, completing the spread of the university across the southern provinces.素叾他尼于 1990 年成为第四校区所在，董里于 1991 年成第五校区，至此大学遍布南部诸府。

• In 2016 the university transitioned from a government agency into an autonomous university under state supervision, changing how it is governed and funded.2016 年，该校由政府机关转型为国家监管下的自治大学，其治理与经费方式随之改变。

• King Bhumibol Adulyadej chose and bestowed the name of the institution, linking the southern university to the Thai monarchy from its founding.普密蓬阿杜德国王亲自选定并赐予校名，使这所南部大学自创校起便与泰国王室相连。

• The name honours Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, the King's father, who held the title Prince of Songkla and is remembered in Thailand as a patron of medicine and science.此名是为颂扬国王之父、曾获封宋卡王子头衔的玛希敦阿杜德亲王，他在泰国被视为医药与科学的庇护者。

• By virtue of that naming, Prince of Songkla University carries a royal title, and it was the first university ever established in southern Thailand.正因这一命名，宋卡王子大学承袭了一个王室头衔，它亦是泰国南部历史上第一所大学。

• As of 2007 the university offered 295 educational programmes to some 34,000 students, a figure that marks its expansion over four decades.截至 2007 年，该校面向约 34,000 名学生开设 295 个教育项目，此数字标示其四十年间的扩张。

• Among those 2007 programmes were eighteen international programmes and three foreign-language programmes, evidence of an early turn toward internationally taught study.在 2007 年的这些项目中，含 18 个国际项目与 3 个外语项目，显示其较早迈向以国际方式授课。

• The founding sequence, from the 1962 assignment to the 1968 Act and the 1971 move to Hat Yai, fixed the pattern of a university whose weight shifted to its inland main campus.从 1962 年交办、1968 年立法到 1971 年迁往合艾这一系列创校节点，确立了一所大学重心转向内陆主校区的格局。

Academics

• Study at the university is distributed across five campuses at Hat Yai, Pattani, Phuket, Surat Thani and Trang, each carrying its own set of faculties and colleges.该校教学分布于合艾、北大年、普吉、素叾他尼与董里五个校区，各校区各有自身的学院与书院建制。

• By 2007 the university ran 295 educational programmes for about 34,000 students, a breadth of offerings unusual for a regional Thai university of its era.至 2007 年该校已为约 34,000 名学生开设 295 个项目，如此广度在其时代的泰国区域性大学中颇为少见。

• The Hat Yai main campus hosts the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Dentistry, the Faculty of Medical Technology and the Faculty of Nursing, forming its health-sciences core.合艾主校区设医学院、牙医学院、医学技术学院与护理学院，构成其健康科学核心。

• Engineering, Science, Agro-Industry, Natural Resources, Environment Management, Veterinary Sciences, Economics, Law, Liberal Arts and Management Sciences all teach from the Hat Yai campus.工、理、农工业、自然资源、环境管理、兽医、经济、法、人文艺术及管理科学诸学院均在合艾校区执教。

• A Graduate School and an International College operate alongside these faculties at Hat Yai, giving the main campus dedicated postgraduate and international teaching bodies.研究生院与一所国际学院在合艾与这些学院并行，使主校区拥有专门的研究生与国际教学机构。

• The Hat Yai campus is home to a Peace Studies Institute and to the Marine and Coastal Resources Institute, units oriented to the study of conflict and of coastal environments.合艾校区设有和平研究学院与海洋海岸资源学院，前者关注冲突研究，后者关注海岸环境研究。

• It also hosts the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Faculty of Traditional Thai Medicine, the latter keeping the study of native healing within the university.该校址亦设药学院与传统泰国医学院，后者将本土疗法的研学纳入大学之中。

• At Pattani the faculties include Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Sciences and Technology, Communication Sciences, Fine and Applied Arts and Nursing.北大年校区设教育、人文与社会科学、政治学、自然科学与技术、传播科学、美术与应用艺术及护理等学院。

• Pattani also carries a College of Islamic Studies, reflecting the large Muslim community of Thailand's southern provinces in which the campus stands.北大年另设伊斯兰研究学院，反映出这座校区所处泰国南部诸府庞大的穆斯林社群。

• At Phuket the faculties cover Hospitality and Tourism, International Studies and Technology and Environment, served by a Computing College and a Department of Computer Engineering.普吉校区设酒店与旅游、国际研究、技术与环境等学院，并配有计算机学院与计算机工程学系。

• Phuket also operates a Community College and an International College of Arts and Sciences, widening access beyond the degree-seeking student body.普吉另办一所社区学院与一所国际文理学院，使受教育机会超越学位生群体。

• An Interdisciplinary Graduate School at Phuket is devoted to Earth System Science and Andaman Natural Disaster Management, a field shaped by the 2004 tsunami that struck this coast.普吉一所跨学科研究生院专注地球系统科学与安达曼自然灾害管理，这一领域因侵袭此岸的 2004 年海啸而形成。

• At Surat Thani the university runs faculties of Liberal Arts and Management Sciences, of Sciences and Industrial Technology, and of Innovative Agriculture and Fisheries.素叾他尼校区设人文艺术与管理科学、自然科学与工业技术、创新农业与渔业三类学院。

• Surat Thani also holds a Graduate School and an International College, repeating the Hat Yai model of dedicated postgraduate provision on a regional campus.素叾他尼亦设研究生院与国际学院，在区域校区复现合艾那种专门的研究生培养模式。

• At Trang the faculties include Commerce and Management and Architecture, together with a college for innovation in the performing arts and management.董里校区设商贸与管理学院以及建筑学院，另有一所专注表演艺术与管理创新的学院。

• The International Study Program in Phuket is multidisciplinary, offering courses in the social sciences, history, intercultural communications, tourism, human resources and international finance and economics.普吉国际学习项目为跨学科，开设社会科学、历史、跨文化交流、旅游、人力资源以及国际金融与经济等课程。

• Research at the university is symbolised by the Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology for Energy, which officially started in April 2012 when its predecessor centre closed.该校研究以纳米能源卓越中心为象征，此中心于 2012 年 4 月在前身卓越中心结束时正式启动。

• Its predecessor ran from October 2006 to March 2012 and drew research groups from Pharmacy, Science and Engineering working on drug delivery, layers for MEMS and membranes for nanofiltration.其前身自 2006 年 10 月运行至 2012 年 3 月，汇聚药、理、工三方面研究团队，从事给药系统、微机电多层结构与纳滤膜研究。

• That earlier centre published more than forty articles in international journals and filed some ten petty patents and patents, a record that carried into the successor body.该前身中心已在国际期刊发表论文逾四十篇并申请约十项小型专利与专利，这一纪录延续至后继机构。

• The successor centre unites two groups from Science and Engineering around the theme of micro- and nanoscale energy, spanning energy conversion, energy storage and energy saving.后继中心将理、工两支团队汇聚于微纳尺度能源主题之下，涵盖能量转换、能量储存与节能。

Campus

• The university is organised around five campuses spread through the southern provinces of Thailand, at Songkhla, Pattani, Phuket, Surat Thani and Trang.该校以分布于泰国南部宋卡、北大年、普吉、素叾他尼与董里诸府的五个校区为架构。

• Its main campus lies at Tambon Korhong in Hat Yai District of Songkhla Province, a site reached through the relocation of the Faculty of Engineering from the coast.其主校区位于宋卡府合艾县哥洪镇，此址源于工学院自海岸的迁址而定。

• The Hat Yai grounds rest on the donated plot of 690 rai, about 276 acres, that Lady Atthakraweesunthorn gave to the university for its engineering campus.合艾校地坐落在那片 690 莱、约 276 英亩的捐赠土地上，为阿塔卡拉维顺通夫人所献给大学作工程校区之用。

• The Hat Yai campus, opened in 1971, carries more than half of all students, so it functions as both the geographic and the numerical centre of the university.1971 年启用的合艾校区容纳逾半数学生，故其兼为大学的地理中心与人数中心。

• Its original Pattani site at Ruesamilae abuts the sea, and the high humidity there had driven the move of the engineering facilities inland to Hat Yai.其最初位于勒萨米勒的北大年校址紧邻大海，当地高湿曾促使工程设施内迁至合艾。

• The Phuket campus faces the Andaman Sea on the western coast, and its location in a tsunami-affected region informs its disaster-management graduate school.普吉校区面向西海岸的安达曼海，其地处受海啸波及的区域，塑造了该校区的灾害管理研究生院。

• Phuket accommodates the most students from European and North American universities, functioning as the international face of an otherwise regionally rooted university.普吉容纳来自欧洲与北美大学的学生最多，扮演这所以区域为本的大学之国际窗口。

• Its Surat Thani and Trang campuses extend higher education to provinces that had long depended on Bangkok for university study.其素叾他尼与董里校区把高等教育延伸到长期依赖曼谷求学的府份。

• The whole institution operates from a main site recorded near latitude 7.19882 and longitude 100.5951, in the flat southern plain around Hat Yai.全校要址记录在北纬约 7.19882、东经约 100.5951 一带，位于合艾周边的南部平原。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place Prince of Songkla University in the 851-900 band, the position on which this entry is based.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将宋卡王子大学列入第 851-900 位，本条目即据此名次档位而写。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 1201-1400 band, its standing in the same edition of that table.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校被列入第 1201-1400 位，即该榜同版名次。

• It appears at position 1351 in the 2026-27 US News Best Global Universities table, a single-number rank from the same annual cycle.该校在 2026-27 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中列第 1351 位，为同一周期给出的单项名次。

• No position is recorded for the university in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking, the Academic Ranking of World Universities, whose main list does not carry it.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名未收录该校名次，其主榜并不见其名。

• It is consistently counted among the top ten universities of Thailand, a national standing the university has long maintained across regional tables.该校稳居泰国前十大学之列，这一国内地位在其与区域榜单间长期维系。

• In the THES-QS World University Rankings it placed 481st worldwide in 2006 and 525th in 2007, ranking as the seventh and then the sixth Thai university on the list.在泰晤士-QS 世界大学排名中，该校 2006 年列全球第 481 位、2007 年第 525 位，分别为该榜泰国院校的第 7 与第 6 名。

• In the Webometrics Ranking it topped the Thai list five non-consecutive times in 2008, 2009 and 2011 and was the first Thai university to reach the top 400 in January 2008, the top 300 in January 2009 and the top 200 in July 2009.在网络学术影响力排名中，该校于 2008、2009 与 2011 年五次断续登顶泰国榜首，且是第一所泰国大学分别在 2008 年 1 月进前 400、2009 年 1 月进前 300、2009 年 7 月进前 200。

• At its July 2009 peak the university was ranked 175th in the world, 18th in Asia and second in Southeast Asia behind only the National University of Singapore.在其 2009 年 7 月的巅峰，该校列全球第 175 位、亚洲第 18 位，并在东南亚仅次于新加坡国立大学居第二。

• Its research capacity is recognised in its membership of the nine-university Thailand National Research Universities Project, an official grouping of the country's strongest research institutions.其研究实力获认于该校入选由九所大学组成的泰国国家研究大学计划，这是全国最强研究机构的官方组合。

• As a measurable research output, its former nanotechnology centre produced more than forty journal articles and around ten patents, standing in for external citation counts not available here.就可计量的科研产出而言，其前身纳米中心已发表论文逾四十篇并获约十项专利，可替代此处无从取得的外部引用数据。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields-level affiliate is recorded for the institution, so its highest honours are institutional, resting on the royal naming, the top-ten national standing and the Webometrics milestones.该校未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级人物关联，其最高荣誉属机构层面，依据是王室赐名、全国前十地位与网络排名里程碑。

Student life

• Prince of Songkla University hosts hundreds of international students, and the Phuket campus accommodates the largest number of them from European and North American universities.宋卡王子大学容纳数百名国际学生，其中普吉校区所接收的来自欧洲与北美大学的学生最多。

• Those visiting students are drawn especially by the International Study Program in Phuket, which delivers courses across social sciences, history, intercultural communications, tourism and international finance.这些访问学生尤受普吉国际学习项目吸引，该项目横跨社会科学、历史、跨文化交流、旅游与国际金融开课。

• Its eighteen international programmes and three foreign-language programmes, already in place by 2007, give Thai and foreign students a route to study in languages other than Thai.该校早在 2007 年即设 18 个国际项目与 3 个外语项目，使泰国与外国学生有机会以泰语之外的语言修读。

• Each year the university commemorates its Foundation Day on 13 March, the anniversary of the 1968 Act that first gave Prince of Songkla University its legal existence.大学每年于 3 月 13 日纪念创校纪念日，此日正是 1968 年立法使宋卡王子大学获得法人地位之日。

• Because its campuses stand in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, the Pattani College of Islamic Studies gives Muslim students a place of learning rooted in their own community.因其校区位于泰国穆斯林居多的南部，北大年的伊斯兰研究学院为穆斯林学生提供了一个扎根于其社群的求学之所。

• Students at the coastal Phuket campus take part in the study of Andaman natural disaster management, a field the community developed after the 2004 tsunami struck its shores.普吉海岸校区的学生参与安达曼自然灾害管理研习，这是社群在 2004 年海啸袭岸后发展出的领域。

• The five-campus structure means students move and study across Songkhla, Pattani, Phuket, Surat Thani and Trang, giving campus life a regional rather than single-city rhythm.五个校区的结构意味着学生往来研读于宋卡、北大年、普吉、素叾他尼与董里，使校园生活带有区域而非单一城市的节奏。

• As an autonomous university since 2016, it runs its own student affairs, widening what once was administered as an arm of the Thai state.自 2016 年成为自治大学后，其自行管理学生事务，拓宽了昔日作为国家附属机关时的权限。

Notable people

• The name of the university is tied to the Thai crown, since King Bhumibol Adulyadej personally chose and bestowed the title that the institution has borne since its founding.该校之名与泰国王冠相连，普密蓬阿杜德国王亲自选定并赐予这所机构自创校沿用的名称。

• It honours Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, father of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who is remembered as a patron of modern medicine and science in Thailand.该校是为颂扬普密蓬阿杜德国王之父玛希敦阿杜德亲王，他被追忆为泰国现代医药与科学的庇护者。

• Prince Mahidol Adulyadej carried the royal title Prince of Songkla, and it is that title the university perpetuates in its name.玛希敦阿杜德亲王生前持有宋卡王子这一王室头衔，大学之名正是对这一头衔的延续。

• Lady Atthakraweesunthorn stands among the university's principal benefactors, having donated the 690-rai plot at Tambon Korhong on which the main Hat Yai campus now rests.阿塔卡拉维顺通夫人是该校主要捐赠者之一，其所捐哥洪镇 690 莱之地，正是今日合艾主校区的坐落之所。

• Her single donation redirected the geography of the institution, since the land she gave at Hat Yai became the home of the Faculty of Engineering and thus of the main campus.她的一次捐赠改变了该校的地理格局，因其所献合艾之地成了工学院所在，也因此成为主校区之所在。

• Behind the founding stood the Southern Development Committee and the Department of Provincial Administration, the state bodies assigned in 1962 to bring a university to southern Thailand.创校背后有南部发展委员会与地方行政厅，这两家国家机构于 1962 年受命为泰国南部兴办大学。

• The Prince of Songkla University Act passed by the National Assembly of Thailand in 1968 gave legal shape to the project, and it was the assembly that fixed the institution as a university.泰国国会 1968 年通过的《宋卡王子大学法》为这一兴学计划赋予法律形态，正是国会将其确立为一所大学。

• As the first university of southern Thailand, Prince of Songkla University has drawn its students and staff from provinces long served only by colleges in Bangkok, reshaping the region's human geography.作为泰国南部第一所大学，宋卡王子大学吸纳了长期只有曼谷学院可就读的各府师生，重塑了该地区的人文地理。