QS #212Bangkok, Thailand· QS World University Rankings 2027

Chulalongkorn University

Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand, has 11 undergraduate courses listed on StudyPath. International tuition runs from ~THB 159,000 to ~THB 327,000 a year depending on the course. Chulalongkorn publishes its own accommodation prices, from THB 13,000 per month. 9 of the 11 publish an application deadline. 2 named scholarships are recorded against these courses. Every figure above was read from Chulalongkorn's own published pages and last checked on 5 September 2026.

Courses: 11
Fees verified: 11 / 11
Scholarship entries: 6

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Information and Communication Engineering

B.Eng. · 4 years · Computer Science

International tuition

THB 84,000 per term

~THB 672,000 for the whole 4 years, at today's fee

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653xxxxx21 - ONWARDS · Faculty-wide rate · International students

This is the Program Fee only, charged to foreign students in the current cohort band ('653xxxxx21 - ONWARDS', i.e. Chulalongkorn student-ID prefix 65 = Thai Buddhist year 2565 = admitted 2022 onward) per ISE's own Tuition & Fees page, which prices this figure identically across 'All Programs' at ISE (ICE, NANO, ADME-V, AERO, Robotics AI). A SEPARATE, compulsory Tuition Fee of 79,500 Baht/semester is also charged to foreign students in the same cohort band on the same page, making the true combined regular-semester cost approximately 163,500 Baht (the page never states this combined total itself, so only the Program Fee figure -- the one component this page states as a single verifiable number alongside the cohort label -- is recorded here as the structured amount). A Summer Semester rate (42,000 Baht Program Fee + 44,630 Baht Tuition Fee) also applies if a student registers for summer courses. No academic year is stated anywhere on this page; the cohort-ID band is the only validity marker Chulalongkorn provides for this rate.

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Intake: August (First semester of the Bachelor of Engineering (International Program) academic year)
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Taught in: English
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Application deadline: International (non-Thai) applicants, AY2026 cycle: First Round 22 December 2025 - 6 February 2026; Second Round 20 March - 1 May 2026 (16:00 hrs Bangkok time). Common to all ISE Bachelor of Engineering (International Program) tracks.
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What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships1 available

ISE Academic Excellence Scholarship (ISE50 / ISE100)
ISE50/CR50: 50% waiver of the Program Fee. ISE100/CR100: full waiver of the Program Fee. The separate Tuition Fee component is not covered.
Eligibility: Awarded to enrolled ISE (International School of Engineering) students -- only a few top-ranking candidates each year -- on the basis of academic performance and behavior; registration forms are submitted before the start of the first semester. To keep the award, recipients must maintain a first-semester GPAX above 3.25 (for ISE50) or above 3.60 (for ISE100), work at least 8 hours per week for the ISE Office, and keep student status without academic leave. A parallel financial-need track (CR50/CR100, same payout tiers) is available instead for students in immediate financial crisis, re-applied every semester.
General ISE-wide scheme covering this program; not stated as restricted to any nationality. SEMI (Semiconductor Engineering), a separate ISE-family program, runs its own distinct scholarship rather than this one.
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Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades · interview

English language

TOEFL (Internet Based), 80 overall
IELTS, 6 overall
CU-TEP, 80 overallChulalongkorn University Test of English Proficiency
Duolingo, 105 overallDuolingo English Test

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Admissions tests

Option 1 Test Scores optionalOne of two ISE admission routes for AY2026 international admission; applicants choose either this route or the Portfolio route. Requires GPAX (7.5% weight) plus English (20%), Mathematics (32.5%) and Science (40%) test scores at or above the published minimum passing criteria.
Option 2 Portfolio optionalThe alternative ISE admission route to Test Scores. Requires GPAX >= 3.25 (30% weight), an English test score at or above the passing criteria, an interview (15%) and an electronic portfolio submission (35%).
CU-AAT optionalChulalongkorn University Academic Aptitude Test (Math section); one of several accepted Mathematics-test options under the Test Scores route (others: SAT Math >=620, A-Level Mathematics >=B, IB HL Mathematics >=6, ACT Math >=26, AP Calculus AB/BC >=4, Gaokao Math >=90).
CU-ATS optionalChulalongkorn University Aptitude Test for Science (Physics); one of several accepted Science-test options under the Test Scores route (others: A-Level Physics >=B, IB HL Physics >=6, ACT Science >=25, AP Physics >=4, Gaokao Physics >=60).

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Academic offer

GPAX (Grade 12 or equivalence) is required under both admission routes: weighted 7.50% under the Test Scores route (Option 1), or must be >= 3.25 with 30% weight under the Portfolio route (Option 2). A recognized secondary-school leaving qualification equivalent to Thai Mattayom 6 is also required (per ISE's general applicant qualifications).

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Interview

An interview is part of the admission process for both routes: a Pass/Fail interview gate under the Test Scores route, and a 15%-weighted interview component under the Portfolio route.

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Nano-Engineering

B.Eng. · 4 years · Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering

International tuition

THB 84,000 per term

~THB 672,000 for the whole 4 years, at today's fee

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653xxxxx21 - ONWARDS · Faculty-wide rate · International students

This is the Program Fee only, charged to foreign students in the current cohort band ('653xxxxx21 - ONWARDS') per ISE's own Tuition & Fees page, which prices this figure identically across 'All Programs' at ISE. A SEPARATE, compulsory Tuition Fee of 79,500 Baht/semester is also charged to foreign students in the same cohort band on the same page, making the true combined regular-semester cost approximately 163,500 Baht. A Summer Semester rate (42,000 Baht Program Fee + 44,630 Baht Tuition Fee) also applies. No academic year is stated anywhere on this page; the cohort-ID band is the only validity marker Chulalongkorn provides for this rate.

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Intake: August (First semester of the Bachelor of Engineering (International Program) academic year)
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Taught in: English
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Application deadline: International (non-Thai) applicants, AY2026 cycle: First Round 22 December 2025 - 6 February 2026; Second Round 20 March - 1 May 2026 (16:00 hrs Bangkok time). Common to all ISE Bachelor of Engineering (International Program) tracks.
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What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships1 available

ISE Academic Excellence Scholarship (ISE50 / ISE100)
ISE50/CR50: 50% waiver of the Program Fee. ISE100/CR100: full waiver of the Program Fee. The separate Tuition Fee component is not covered.
Eligibility: Awarded to enrolled ISE (International School of Engineering) students -- only a few top-ranking candidates each year -- on the basis of academic performance and behavior; registration forms are submitted before the start of the first semester. To keep the award, recipients must maintain a first-semester GPAX above 3.25 (for ISE50) or above 3.60 (for ISE100), work at least 8 hours per week for the ISE Office, and keep student status without academic leave. A parallel financial-need track (CR50/CR100, same payout tiers) is available instead for students in immediate financial crisis, re-applied every semester.
General ISE-wide scheme covering this program; not stated as restricted to any nationality. SEMI (Semiconductor Engineering), a separate ISE-family program, runs its own distinct scholarship rather than this one.
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Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades · interview

English language

TOEFL (Internet Based), 80 overall
IELTS, 6 overall
CU-TEP, 80 overallChulalongkorn University Test of English Proficiency
Duolingo, 105 overallDuolingo English Test

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Admissions tests

Option 1 Test Scores optionalOne of two ISE admission routes for AY2026 international admission. Requires GPAX (7.5% weight) plus English (20%), Mathematics (32.5%) and Science (40%) test scores at or above the published minimum passing criteria.
Option 2 Portfolio optionalThe alternative ISE admission route to Test Scores. Requires GPAX >= 3.25 (30% weight), an English test score at or above the passing criteria, an interview (15%) and an electronic portfolio submission (35%).
CU-AAT optionalChulalongkorn University Academic Aptitude Test (Math section); one of several accepted Mathematics-test options under the Test Scores route.
CU-ATS optionalChulalongkorn University Aptitude Test for Science (Physics); one of several accepted Science-test options under the Test Scores route.

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Academic offer

GPAX (Grade 12 or equivalence) is required under both admission routes: weighted 7.50% under the Test Scores route (Option 1), or must be >= 3.25 with 30% weight under the Portfolio route (Option 2).

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Interview

An interview is part of the admission process for both routes: a Pass/Fail interview gate under the Test Scores route, and a 15%-weighted interview component under the Portfolio route.

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Automotive Design and Manufacturing, and Electric Vehicle Engineering

B.Eng. · 4 years · Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

International tuition

THB 84,000 per term

~THB 672,000 for the whole 4 years, at today's fee

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653xxxxx21 - ONWARDS · Faculty-wide rate · International students

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Intake: August (First semester of the Bachelor of Engineering (International Program) academic year)
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Taught in: English
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Application deadline: International (non-Thai) applicants, AY2026 cycle: First Round 22 December 2025 - 6 February 2026; Second Round 20 March - 1 May 2026 (16:00 hrs Bangkok time). Common to all ISE Bachelor of Engineering (International Program) tracks.
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What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships1 available

ISE Academic Excellence Scholarship (ISE50 / ISE100)
ISE50/CR50: 50% waiver of the Program Fee. ISE100/CR100: full waiver of the Program Fee. The separate Tuition Fee component is not covered.
Eligibility: Awarded to enrolled ISE (International School of Engineering) students -- only a few top-ranking candidates each year -- on the basis of academic performance and behavior; registration forms are submitted before the start of the first semester. To keep the award, recipients must maintain a first-semester GPAX above 3.25 (for ISE50) or above 3.60 (for ISE100), work at least 8 hours per week for the ISE Office, and keep student status without academic leave. A parallel financial-need track (CR50/CR100, same payout tiers) is available instead for students in immediate financial crisis, re-applied every semester.
General ISE-wide scheme covering this program; not stated as restricted to any nationality. SEMI (Semiconductor Engineering), a separate ISE-family program, runs its own distinct scholarship rather than this one.
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Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades · interview

English language

TOEFL (Internet Based), 80 overall
IELTS, 6 overall
CU-TEP, 80 overallChulalongkorn University Test of English Proficiency
Duolingo, 105 overallDuolingo English Test

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Admissions tests

Option 1 Test Scores optionalOne of two ISE admission routes for AY2026 international admission. Requires GPAX (7.5% weight) plus English (20%), Mathematics (32.5%) and Science (40%) test scores at or above the published minimum passing criteria.
Option 2 Portfolio optionalThe alternative ISE admission route to Test Scores. Requires GPAX >= 3.25 (30% weight), an English test score at or above the passing criteria, an interview (15%) and an electronic portfolio submission (35%).
CU-AAT optionalChulalongkorn University Academic Aptitude Test (Math section); one of several accepted Mathematics-test options under the Test Scores route.
CU-ATS optionalChulalongkorn University Aptitude Test for Science (Physics); one of several accepted Science-test options under the Test Scores route.

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Academic offer

GPAX (Grade 12 or equivalence) is required under both admission routes: weighted 7.50% under the Test Scores route (Option 1), or must be >= 3.25 with 30% weight under the Portfolio route (Option 2).

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Interview

An interview is part of the admission process for both routes: a Pass/Fail interview gate under the Test Scores route, and a 15%-weighted interview component under the Portfolio route.

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Aerospace Engineering

B.Eng. · 4 years · Aerospace Engineering

International tuition

THB 84,000 per term

~THB 672,000 for the whole 4 years, at today's fee

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653xxxxx21 - ONWARDS · Faculty-wide rate · International students

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Intake: August (First semester of the Bachelor of Engineering (International Program) academic year)
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Taught in: English
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Application deadline: International (non-Thai) applicants, AY2026 cycle: First Round 22 December 2025 - 6 February 2026; Second Round 20 March - 1 May 2026 (16:00 hrs Bangkok time). Common to all ISE Bachelor of Engineering (International Program) tracks.
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What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships1 available

ISE Academic Excellence Scholarship (ISE50 / ISE100)
ISE50/CR50: 50% waiver of the Program Fee. ISE100/CR100: full waiver of the Program Fee. The separate Tuition Fee component is not covered.
Eligibility: Awarded to enrolled ISE (International School of Engineering) students -- only a few top-ranking candidates each year -- on the basis of academic performance and behavior; registration forms are submitted before the start of the first semester. To keep the award, recipients must maintain a first-semester GPAX above 3.25 (for ISE50) or above 3.60 (for ISE100), work at least 8 hours per week for the ISE Office, and keep student status without academic leave. A parallel financial-need track (CR50/CR100, same payout tiers) is available instead for students in immediate financial crisis, re-applied every semester.
General ISE-wide scheme covering this program; not stated as restricted to any nationality. SEMI (Semiconductor Engineering), a separate ISE-family program, runs its own distinct scholarship rather than this one.
Source

Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades · interview

English language

TOEFL (Internet Based), 80 overall
IELTS, 6 overall
CU-TEP, 80 overallChulalongkorn University Test of English Proficiency
Duolingo, 105 overallDuolingo English Test

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Admissions tests

Option 1 Test Scores optionalOne of two ISE admission routes for AY2026 international admission. Requires GPAX (7.5% weight) plus English (20%), Mathematics (32.5%) and Science (40%) test scores at or above the published minimum passing criteria.
Option 2 Portfolio optionalThe alternative ISE admission route to Test Scores. Requires GPAX >= 3.25 (30% weight), an English test score at or above the passing criteria, an interview (15%) and an electronic portfolio submission (35%).
CU-AAT optionalChulalongkorn University Academic Aptitude Test (Math section); one of several accepted Mathematics-test options under the Test Scores route.
CU-ATS optionalChulalongkorn University Aptitude Test for Science (Physics); one of several accepted Science-test options under the Test Scores route.

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Academic offer

GPAX (Grade 12 or equivalence) is required under both admission routes: weighted 7.50% under the Test Scores route (Option 1), or must be >= 3.25 with 30% weight under the Portfolio route (Option 2).

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Interview

An interview is part of the admission process for both routes: a Pass/Fail interview gate under the Test Scores route, and a 15%-weighted interview component under the Portfolio route.

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Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering

B.Eng. · 4 years · Data Science & AI, Robotics

International tuition

THB 84,000 per term

~THB 672,000 for the whole 4 years, at today's fee

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653xxxxx21 - ONWARDS · Faculty-wide rate · International students

This is the Program Fee only, charged to foreign students in the current cohort band ('653xxxxx21 - ONWARDS') per ISE's own Tuition & Fees page, which prices this figure identically across 'All Programs' at ISE. A SEPARATE, compulsory Tuition Fee of 79,500 Baht/semester is also charged to foreign students in the same cohort band on the same page, making the true combined regular-semester cost approximately 163,500 Baht. Note that earlier Robotics AI cohorts (student-ID prefixes 61-62) paid a different, higher Program Fee band (128,500 Baht/semester) on this same page; the 84,000 figure recorded here is specifically the current ('65 onwards') band. A Summer Semester rate (42,000 Baht Program Fee + 44,630 Baht Tuition Fee) also applies. No academic year is stated anywhere on this page; the cohort-ID band is the only validity marker Chulalongkorn provides for this rate.

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Intake: August (First semester of the Bachelor of Engineering (International Program) academic year)
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Taught in: English
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Application deadline: International (non-Thai) applicants, AY2026 cycle: First Round 22 December 2025 - 6 February 2026; Second Round 20 March - 1 May 2026 (16:00 hrs Bangkok time). Common to all ISE Bachelor of Engineering (International Program) tracks.
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What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships1 available

ISE Academic Excellence Scholarship (ISE50 / ISE100)
ISE50/CR50: 50% waiver of the Program Fee. ISE100/CR100: full waiver of the Program Fee. The separate Tuition Fee component is not covered.
Eligibility: Awarded to enrolled ISE (International School of Engineering) students -- only a few top-ranking candidates each year -- on the basis of academic performance and behavior; registration forms are submitted before the start of the first semester. To keep the award, recipients must maintain a first-semester GPAX above 3.25 (for ISE50) or above 3.60 (for ISE100), work at least 8 hours per week for the ISE Office, and keep student status without academic leave. A parallel financial-need track (CR50/CR100, same payout tiers) is available instead for students in immediate financial crisis, re-applied every semester.
General ISE-wide scheme covering this program; not stated as restricted to any nationality. SEMI (Semiconductor Engineering), a separate ISE-family program, runs its own distinct scholarship rather than this one.
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Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades · interview

English language

TOEFL (Internet Based), 80 overall
IELTS, 6 overall
CU-TEP, 80 overallChulalongkorn University Test of English Proficiency
Duolingo, 105 overallDuolingo English Test

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Admissions tests

Option 1 Test Scores optionalOne of two ISE admission routes for AY2026 international admission. Requires GPAX (7.5% weight) plus English (20%), Mathematics (32.5%) and Science (40%) test scores at or above the published minimum passing criteria.
Option 2 Portfolio optionalThe alternative ISE admission route to Test Scores. Requires GPAX >= 3.25 (30% weight), an English test score at or above the passing criteria, an interview (15%) and an electronic portfolio submission (35%).
CU-AAT optionalChulalongkorn University Academic Aptitude Test (Math section); one of several accepted Mathematics-test options under the Test Scores route.
CU-ATS optionalChulalongkorn University Aptitude Test for Science (Physics); one of several accepted Science-test options under the Test Scores route.

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Academic offer

GPAX (Grade 12 or equivalence) is required under both admission routes: weighted 7.50% under the Test Scores route (Option 1), or must be >= 3.25 with 30% weight under the Portfolio route (Option 2).

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Interview

An interview is part of the admission process for both routes: a Pass/Fail interview gate under the Test Scores route, and a 15%-weighted interview component under the Portfolio route.

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Semiconductor Engineering

B.Eng. · 4 years · Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Materials Science

International tuition

THB 138,000 per term

~THB 1,104,000 for the whole 4 years, at today's fee

Published, undated

Priced for this course · International students

Chulalongkorn publishes this figure without stating which year it applies to, so it may already be out of date. Treat it as a starting point and check the course page for the current rate. Flag it below if you know it has changed.

This is the Program Fee only, charged to Non-Thai students for a Regular Semester on SEMI's own (department-specific) Tuition & Fee page -- distinct from ISE's generic 'All Programs' table, which prices the Program Fee at 84,000 Baht instead. A SEPARATE, compulsory Tuition Fee of 25,500 Baht/semester is also charged to Non-Thai students (same rate as Thai students), making the true combined regular-semester cost approximately 163,500 Baht -- the page never states this combined total itself, so only the Program Fee figure is recorded as the structured amount. A Summer Semester rate also applies (6,375 Baht Tuition Fee + 80,255 Baht Program Fee) if a student registers for summer courses. No admission-cycle year or student-cohort label appears anywhere on this page, hence undated.

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Intake: August (SEMI's inaugural cohort began August 2025; the same first-semester pattern applies to subsequent intakes)
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Taught in: English
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Application deadline: Non-Thai (international) applicants: Round 1 around January; Round 2 around April, on the condition the announced number of admitted applicants is not met in Round 1. SEMI runs its own admission calendar, separate from ISE's central Dec-Feb/Mar-May rounds.
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What you'll study

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Scholarships1 available

SEMI Tuition Scholarship (Non-Thai Students)
Covers tuition fees (25,500 Baht/semester) and program fees (138,000 Baht/semester), plus health insurance, for four years of study. Does not include the flight, stipend or accommodation that come with ISE's separate 'Full Scholarship', which SEMI states it does not award to its own students.
Eligibility: Open to non-Thai (international) SEMI applicants who are not over 25 years old; applicants must complete the SEMI application, pass its admission requirements, and be admitted. Awarded competitively -- ranked and offered to whichever applicants best meet the selection criteria -- rather than to every admitted student. Only one Tuition Scholarship of this type is awarded to SEMI students each year. To keep it, recipients must work at least 80 hours per semester for the SEMI program, remain in Thailand during the scholarship period, and maintain a cumulative GPA above 3.00 (checked at the end of each semester).
SEMI (Semiconductor Engineering) runs this scholarship itself, distinct from the general ISE-wide Academic Excellence Scholarship (ISE50/ISE100) used by Chulalongkorn's other International Program engineering degrees.
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Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades · interview

English language

TOEFL (Internet Based), 80 overall
IELTS, 6 overall
CU-TEP, 80 overallChulalongkorn University Test of English Proficiency. SEMI's own admission page confirms its English/Math/Science weighting (20%/32.5%/40%) matches the shared ISE Admission Criteria exactly, so these ISE-wide thresholds are recorded as SEMI's own.
Duolingo, 105 overallDuolingo English Test

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Admissions tests

Option 1 Test Scores optionalOne of two ISE-family admission routes; SEMI's own admission page states it 'accepts only test score applications. There is no portfolio option' for SEMI specifically, so this route is effectively mandatory for SEMI (unlike other ISE programmes).
Option 2 Portfolio optionalListed on the shared ISE Admission Criteria document, but SEMI's own admission page states SEMI does not offer a portfolio option -- test scores only.
CU-AAT optionalChulalongkorn University Academic Aptitude Test (Math section); SEMI's own evaluation criteria (GPAX 7.5%, English 20%, Math 32.5%, Science 40%) match the shared ISE Admission Criteria exactly.
CU-ATS optionalChulalongkorn University Aptitude Test for Science (Physics); one of several accepted Science-test options under the shared ISE Test Scores route.

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Academic offer

Applicants must have completed high school, passed an equivalent high school standard test, or be currently in their final year of high school (Grade 12 in the US system or Year 13 in the British system). SEMI's own evaluation criteria weight Accumulated GPA (GPAX) at 7.5%, matching the shared ISE Admission Criteria.

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Interview

Required: applicants must pass an interview conducted in English, per SEMI's own evaluation criteria.

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More about Chulalongkorn

Student body

QS's own figures · QS World University Rankings 2027

Students: 34,449
International students: 1,578; ≈5% of the student body (worked out here)
Faculty: 3,959
International faculty: 16%

These come from QS, not the university's own pages. Unlike every fee and deadline on this site. QS is the primary source for its own rankings and measurements, which is why it is cited here and rejected everywhere else.

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About & contact

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Accommodation

THB 13,000–THB 22,000per month

on-campus dormitory for international students (CU iHouse), which Chulalongkorn describes as designed to accommodate international students, Thai students in international programmes, and university faculty and staff. The monthly rates recorded here are the ones for stays of six months or more; a shorter stay costs more, at 14,000 baht a month for either 25 sq.m. studio.

Published by the university itself, not a live listings price. Actual cost depends on room type, availability and when you apply.

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After you graduate

Rules read 19 Aug 2026

What Thailand's own immigration authority currently publishes. Not a ranking, not a guarantee, and not the same as what any agent or forum will tell you. Whether someone actually obtains residence depends on occupation, points, funds and policy that can change between application and graduation.

Route to permanent residence

Thailand's Board of Investment (BOI, the government agency that jointly administers the scheme with the Immigration Bureau) publishes the SMART Visa programme, launched 1 February 2018 to attract skilled foreign personnel and investors into 13 targeted 'S-Curve' industries (including digital, biotechnology, automation and robotics, aviation and logistics, and 'Human Resource Development in Science and Technology'). It has 5 categories: SMART 'T' (Talents / highly-skilled experts), 'I' (Investors), 'E' (Senior executives), 'S' (Startup entrepreneurs) and 'O' (spouse and legitimate children of a SMART Visa holder). The Talents category, the one most directly reachable by a science/technology graduate, requires average income of not less than 100,000 baht/month (or equivalent) for a general business role, or not less than 50,000 baht/month for someone contracted by a startup or a retired expert — while an expert working at a government institution, an educational institution, or in alternative dispute resolution has no minimum income requirement at all. A SMART Visa holder is granted permission to stay in Thailand for up to 4 years, needs to report only once a year (versus the usual 90-day reporting for other visa types), and may re-enter the Kingdom an unlimited number of times; a spouse and legitimate children receive matching residence rights. A foreign national already in Thailand on another visa type may switch to a SMART Visa if they meet the published criteria, and applications are processed through the BOI's own online SMART Visa system.

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Route to citizenship

Thai citizenship by naturalisation (แปลงสัญชาติเป็นไทย) for an ordinary foreign national is governed by Section 10 of the Nationality Act B.E. 2508 (1965) and its amendments, and administered by the Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA), Ministry of Interior, whose own 'Nationality Act Clinic' publishes the applicable criteria directly: having reached the age of majority; holding a certificate of residence or alien registration certificate with a name entered in the civil registration; continuous domicile in Thailand for not less than 5 years, counted from the date the certificate of residence or alien registration was obtained; an honest occupation, evidenced by an occupation certificate from the Office of Foreign Workers Administration or a provincial employment office, meeting an income threshold that itself depends on the applicant's connection to Thailand — not less than 80,000 baht/month if the applicant has no connection to Thailand, dropping to not less than 40,000 baht/month if the applicant has a connection such as being married to a Thai national, having a Thai national child, or having graduated with a higher-education degree from an educational institution in Thailand; evidence of having paid tax for not less than 3 years; a salary/income certificate; basic knowledge of the Thai language (able to speak and understand spoken Thai); and good conduct, verified through a criminal background check (fingerprints submitted for checking), plus checks on political activity, drug involvement, and national-security-related conduct with the relevant agencies. This dataset found no DOPA page addressing dual nationality or an original-nationality-renunciation requirement for this Section 10 route, so no claim is made on that point.

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New entry added 19 August 2026. Two Thai government domains added to IMMIGRATION_DOMAINS in scripts/verify.mjs: boi.go.th (Office of the Board of Investment of Thailand, which jointly administers the SMART Visa programme with the Immigration Bureau — cited via its khonkaen.boi.go.th regional-office subdomain, which republishes the same centrally-set qualification criteria found on the main boi.go.th and smart-visa.boi.go.th domains, both of which are heavy client-rendered single-page applications whose qualification text this project's fetcher and its browser fallback could not extract as static content) and dopa.go.th (Department of Provincial Administration, Ministry of Interior — the citizenship-naturalisation authority, cited via its bora.dopa.go.th 'Nationality Act Clinic' subdomain). workDuringStudy and postStudyWork are both left null: this dataset searched studyinsaudi-equivalent official platforms (studyinsaudi is Saudi-specific; for Thailand this dataset checked immigration.go.th, the Ministry of Labour's Department of Employment doe.go.th, and the Ministry of Education) but found no official page stating a numeric work-during-study hours entitlement or a distinct post-study job-search bridge visa of the kind several other countries in this dataset publish — Thailand's foreign-worker system is instead built around employer-sponsored work permits (administered by the Department of Employment) and, for high performers, the SMART Visa itself, documented under residencyRoute. This is recorded as an absence of found information, not a confirmed 'no'. Thailand also operates a longer-standing, quota-based ordinary Permanent Residence (ใบสำคัญถิ่นที่อยู่) scheme under the Immigration Act, administered by the Immigration Bureau (immigration.go.th) — its overview page was reached (after clearing a Cloudflare bot check) but links only to downloadable application-procedure PDFs rather than static criteria text, so it is not cited here; a future collector could pursue those PDFs specifically. inDemandOccupations is left null: the SMART Visa's targeted-industry list (documented under residencyRoute) names industries, not specific occupations. naturalisationStatus set to 'published-route': DOPA's Nationality Act Clinic publishes real, numbered residence-length, income, tax, language and conduct criteria for Section 10 naturalisation — notably including a graduate's own Thai higher-education degree as one of the recognised 'connections to Thailand' that lowers the income threshold — and per the doc comment on ResidencyPathway.naturalisationStatus this field records only whether criteria are published, not how demanding Thailand's particular income thresholds are in practice. citizenshipTerms records the Section 10 route: 5 years of continuous domicile, counted from the date the certificate of residence or alien registration certificate was obtained — so the clock starts at permanent residence, not arrival. DOPA prints the figure in Thai numerals (๕ ปี). dualCitizenshipAllowed is null: no DOPA page addressing renunciation for this route was found this pass.

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