Vision/ Mission / Goal

1. Vision:

     Prince of Songkla University is a leading research-based university in Asia, fulfilling its inspiration of producing internationally recognized graduates, actively engaging in providing services to community, taking a leading role in the preservation and enhancement of national heritage in arts and culture.


2. Mission:

     2.1 To develop the university into a society of learning based on multi-culture background and sufficiency economy principles, and allow general public an easy and convenient access to learn and gain from whatever forms an sources of knowledge available in the university.
     2.2. To build up expertise and take a leading role in areas of study consistent with the inherent potential of our locality and create a linkage to the global network.
     2.3. To integrate and applied knowledge based on practical experiences to teaching in order to instill intellectual wisdom, virtue, competency and international world-view vision in our graduates.


3. Goals:

1. To create value for research works by organizing and distilling them into excellent specialized core-knowledge with a view to produce tangible innovation to drive the future, and to drive Prince of Songkla University into a leading university in the region.

  Key Performance Indicator (level of goals)

• Number of patents/ copyrights.
• Ranking status of the university, both university-wise and discipline-wise.
• The keeping up of the university presence in the circle of institutions of excellence in tertiary education.


2. To search for knowledge and wisdom to create a wealth of academic resources which is essential for a sustainable development to reach the status of a leading research-intensive university; and to engage in transferring of knowledge and technology to community in order to strengthen and raise the community potential, and to increase the competitiveness of the country in the international level.

  Key Performance Indicator (level of goals)

• Number of published research papers/person/year.
• Number of staff actively engaged in research.


3. To produce graduates who are knowledgeable about their professions, behave in accordance with good Thai moral value, possess life skill and public consciousness, competent to compete in international job market.

  Key Performance Indicator (level of goals)

• Percentage of success in jobs finding and self employ.
• Level of satisfaction of employers.
• Percentage of graduates who work outside the country.


4. To create academic context which is widely opened and easily accessible for acquisition of knowledge, in a variety of dimensions, formats and platforms whose contents are diversely and comprehensively integrated in order to develop local human resources into a society of learning and wisdom.

  Key Performance Indicator (level of goals)

• Number of online programs which are presented in the form of virtual university.


5. To utilize the strategy of proactive management consistent with the administration of multi-campus university, and to operate the system within the practical framework of good governance with emphasis on efficiency, transparency and accountability.

  Key Performance Indicator (level of goals)
  Level of financial stability, evaluate from,

• Ratio of current revenue/accumulated revenue.
• Rate of increase of revenue.




6. To increase competency and to re-engineering the university culture so as to be an institution of learning which accumulates and manages knowledge in a manner which leads to a lasting and stable development.

  Key Performance Indicator (level of goals)

• Fifty percent of all academic staff will be the holders of doctoral degree/ equivalent within 2009.

Emblem, Flower and Color of the University

University Emblem:

• The great crown of victory or Phra Maha Phichi Monkut: One of the most important Royal Regalia of Thailand which signifies the status of the King.
• The Royal Coat of Arms of Thailand: Represent the house of Chakri dynasty, consist of the discus (Chakra) and the trident (Trisula) the celestial weapon of the God Narayana of whom the King of Chakri dynasty is seen as a personification.
• The intertwined two Thai letters “ ม.อ.” : The two intertwining letters are the Thai initials of the name of HRH Prince Mahidol (Mahidol Adulyadej)
• The university's name, “สงขลานครินทร์” : The honorific name, a part of the full title “ Somdej Chao Fa Mahidol Adulyadej Kromma Khun Songkla Nakarin”, which means “ HRH Mahidol Adulyadej the ruler of the city of Songkla” bestowed upon HRH Prince Mahidol by King Rama V in 1903. His Royal Highness was elevated posthumously to "Somdej Chao Fa Mahidol Adulyadej Kromma Luang Songkla Nakarin" on 30 November 1929 by King Rama VII.

University flower: The official flower of Prince of Songkla University is the flower of “Sritrang tree” (Jacaranda filicifolia(Anders) D.Don), which is an indigenous plant of Brazil.

University color: The official color of Prince of Songkla University is “Blue”. The color which is used to denote noble or Royal bloodline of which the university namesake, HRH Prince Mahidol, was one.

VCD

 Three sets of VCD guide to Prince of Songkla University, and a set of University’s songs have been prepared. They are :

• Enter the University Compounds
  
• Not Just a Place of Normal Teaching and Learning
  
• History and Development of PSU
  
• University’s Songs
  

Annual report 2008-2009

     Prince of Songkla University has continuously developed and improve its performance consistent with the framework laid out in the university development plan and administrative strategy that place emphasis on systematic works approach. The University has established a well defined policy, good administrative system with good governance, and aiming for a strong financial base in the long run in order that the University could achieve its objective of becoming a research intensive university. An overview of the University/ campuses/ faculties/ units performances during the years 2006 – 2007 may be found at :

www.planning.psu.ac.th/vijai/report/PSU-Annual-Report49-50.pdf

Executive

Organizational structure

The organizational structure of Prince of Songkla University has been developed with a view to make it flexible enough to accommodate the diverse growth pattern of a multi-campus university that consists of campuses of different sizes and different emphasized areas of specialization. The organizational and administrative charts of the University may be found at
http://www.planning.psu.ac.th/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14&Itemid=109(pdf)

Policy

Policy and University Development Plan for the Period 2007-2011

Based on the analysis in the external context of both global and national levels as well as the internal context which is composed of the report of assessment of the president performance, quality assurance and SWOT analysis; the direction of development of Prince of Songkla University which is consistent with the university vision of becoming a leading university in Asia with the main objectives of producing graduates, providing academic services to community and involving in preservation of national heritage in arts and culture, all through the research based platform, has been formalized and incorporated into the university policy and development plan for the period 2007-2011. The directions of development adopted may be categorized into 6 main directions as follows.

1. To be a research intensive university focusing on creating a system which will change the organization culture to one which relies more on research and graduate studies.
2. To be a center of excellence in certain areas or fields of studies which hopefully will raise the university status in the academic world, and to set example for the organization culture which adheres to the main mission of the university. The university is targeted to become an authority on the subjects of para rubber, oil palm, sea food, Songkla Lake and Islamic studies.
3. To produce academically competent graduates, who are good citizens and possess potential for self-learning, up to date knowledge, problem-solving skills and social-help consciousness.
4. To be a university which concerns with university-community engagement, nurture the community through teaching, research and academic services by using an approach which will increase the community potential for life-long attainment of knowledge.
5. To promote equals development opportunities, and close cooperation between campuses, creating a management system which will lead to a high performance organization of clearly identifiable organization structure, strategic plan, development plan, faculty and staff development plan, finance and budgetary plan, plan for delegation of authority, and performance assessment plan, and always puts significance shortage problems high on the university agenda.
6. To be an institution of learning and development of potential of people as well as an institution of good governance, by promoting an organization culture on the assessment and evaluation processes which is transparent, accountable, fair and impartial, based on the principles of shared vision and collegiate decision.

Prince of Songkla University has adopted the aforementioned view points as its policy and development plan for the period 2007-2011. They will be used as guidelines in administering the university to achieve a lasting growth, and as driving forces which will power Prince of Songkla university towards an Intellectual University of the future.

Roll of the University Presidents

	His Excellency Colonel (Senior) Thanat  Khoman      April 1968 - March 1969
	Prof. Dr. Stang   Mongkolsuk      March 1969 - July 1971
	Prof. Dr. Buares   Kamthong      July 1971 - July 1973
	Prof. Sawas  Sakulthai, M.D.      July 1973 - July 1975
	Assist. Prof. Dr. Phasook  Kullavanij      July 1975 - July 1979
	Prof. Thongchan  Hongladarom      July 1979 - April 1985
	Assist. Prof. Dr. Phasook  Kullavanij      July 1985 - May 1991
	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siripong  Sripipat      June 1991 - May 1997
	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sunthorn  Sotthibandhu      June 1997 - May 2000
	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Prasert  Chitapong      June 2000 - March 2006
	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Boonsom Siribumrungsukha      June 2006 - present

University Council

The by-law power and duty of the university council are as follows:

The university council shall have the powers and duties to control and supervise the affairs of the university in general, and especially in the following matters;

1. To set the policy of the university relating to education, research, academic services, preservation and imparting of national heritage in arts and culture, in conformity with the state policy in general and in relation to the southern Thailand in particular;
2. To issue rules and regulations of the university, or to delegate authority to any governmental units within the university to issue rules and regulations in relation to any particular matter which shall be applied to the said units;
3. To approve the award of degrees, graduate certificates, diplomas and certificates;
4. To consider and propose the establishment, merger and abolition of the office of a campus, graduate school, faculty, college, institute, center, bureau, organizational unit called by other name, and department;
5. To approve and terminate the affiliation of higher or advanced institutes and research institutes;
6. To elevate an education service area of the university to a campus status;
7. To consider and give advice on the appointment and dismissal or revocation of the title of professor, by the King, of the university president, professors, and special professors;
8. To consider and approve the appointment and dismissal of the vice-president, dean, director of a college, director of an institute, director of a bureau, director of a center, including the deputies of the said offices, if any, as well as the head of department or the head of any organizational unit called by other name, emeritus professor, special associate professor and special assistant professor;
9. To consider and approve education programs in accordance with the university policy and the standard stipulated by the Ministry of Education;
10. To issue rules and regulations relating to the management of finance and properties of the university;
11. To consider and approve the revenue budget of the university;
12. To appoint a committee or any person to consider and give opinion on any matter or to do any act within the powers and duties of the university council;
13. To appoint a person whose qualification satisfies article 20 of the Prince of Songkla University Act as acting president in the case that the office of the president is vacant;
14. To perform other duties relating to the university affairs which have not been specifically entrusted to any particular person.

University Council

Central Administration Offices and Units

Office of the President	Research and Development Office
Office of Quality Assurance	Office of PSU History Hall
Office of PSU Alumni Relation	Internal Audit Unit
Registration Office	Curriculum and Staff Development Unit
PSU Faculty Senate Hat Yai Campus	PSU Supporting Staff Council Hat Yai Campus
Staff Club Hat Yai Campus	PSU Saving and Credit Cooperative Limited
PSU Service Cooperative Limited

Office of the President

Office of the President consists of the following divisions:
1. General Affairs Division


In its infant period between the years 1968-1971, the Office of the President was the only center of clerical and administrative office of the University since the number of staff at that time was small and the work load was minimal. The internal divisions of the office, if any, was informal and for convenient only. In the period between the years 1972-1976, the Office of the President was partitioned into four divisions; general affairs, planning and development, academic, and student affairs. The General Affairs Division was further divided into clerical services, welfares (including buildings and ground), finances and personnel sub-divisions. In 1977, to be in accord with the administrative format of each campus which consisted of one vice president for the campus and five assistant presidents, the Office of the President was regrouped into five divisions, namely, administrative, planning and development, academic, student affairs, and welfares divisions.

In 1979, the central administrative works of the University and its campuses were revamped and formally submitted for approval by the Bureau of University Affairs. The proposed reorganization was approved on June 2, 1979. As the results, the University is now compost of seven divisions locating at Hat Yai campus and two divisions locating at Pattani campus. The General Affairs division is one of the seven divisions in Hat Yai campus, and it is further divided into six sub-divisions.

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7428-2021 -24
website (Thai) http://www.general.psu.ac.th/
2. Finance Division


The Finance Division is responsible for overall management of financial and monetary affairs of the University, including book keeping of disbursement, purchasing of materials and supplies and inventory of equipments. Working speedily and correctly, complying with monetary and financial rules and regulation, using up to date technology, continually aiming for self-development and work-development, and striving for satisfaction of the customers, are the principal objectives of the division.

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7428-2130 -49
website (Thai) http://www.finance.psu.ac.th/

3. Personnel Division


The Personnel Division duties are to support and improve the administration of personnel of the University so that it can be carried out efficiently and fairly according to the existing rules and regulation. Its other important duties are to provide information, answer queries, give suggestion or recommendation to university executives, personnel, and other organizational units of the university.

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7428-2041-57
website (Thai) http://www.personnel.psu.ac.th/

4. Building and Ground Division


The Building and Ground Division is responsible for the construction works and utilization of usable area of the Campus, managing and maintaining services regarding transport, accommodation, public utilities, landscaping works of the Campus. Keeping house registration documents and managing security system of the Campus are also its responsibility.

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7428-2170 -2
website (Thai) http://www.building.psu.ac.th/

5. Student Affairs Division


The student affairs division is officially an organizational unit within the Office of the President since 1979. Initially it consisted of three sub-divisions and one unit, namely, counseling and job placement, Student Services and Welfares, Student Affairs sub-divisions and Clerical Service unit. On September 20, 1988, the Clerical Service unit has been raised to the sub-division status and subsequently, on December 3, 2004, two additional units, namely the Information Unit and the International Affairs Unit were added.

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7428-2201 -5
website (Thai)http://student.psu.ac.th/news/

6. Planning Division


The principal roles of the Planning Division are to provide necessary information to support the decision making of university executives, to coordinate and give advices to the Faculties and organizational units of the university in devising policies and plans and in utilization of resources, and to follow up and make the assessment of the results systematically. The division’s objective is to perform its duty efficiently in a service-consciousness manner employing the proactive approach, as well as to design and implement institutional research. Realizing that the possession of ready to use and up to date information is a prerequisite to gain the trust of those concerned, and a necessary ingredient for the university to achieve its objective, the Planning Division is committed to continually develop and improve its information system.

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7428-2069
website (Thai) http://www.planning.psu.ac.th/

7. Education Service Division


The Education Service Division was formally established in 1979, to be the central unit which provides necessary support in working out the policy and intention of the university according to its primary mission in the management of education, research, academic services and international relation. It is the duty of this division to carry out the policy coordination so as to bring about the best practice in the Faculty, college, center, institute, consistent with the vision, mission, strategic and tactical plans of the university.

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7428-2241 -55
website (Thai) http://www.eduservice.psu.ac.th/

General Affairs Division

In its infant period between the years 1968-1971, the Office of the President was the only center of clerical and administrative office of the university since the number of staff at that time was small and the work load was minimal. The internal divisions of the office, if any, was informal and for convenient only. In the period between the years 1972-1976, the Office of the President was partitioned into four divisions; general affairs, planning and development, academic, and student affairs. The General Affairs Division was further divided into clerical services, welfares (including buildings and ground), finances and personnel sub-divisions. In 1977, to be in accord with the administrative format of each campus which consisted of one vice president for the campus and five assistant presidents, the Office of the President was regrouped into five divisions, namely, administrative, planning and development, academic, student affairs, and welfares divisions.

In 1979, the central administrative works of the university and its campuses were revamped and formally submitted for approval by the Bureau of University Affairs. The proposed reorganization was approved on June 2, 1979. As the results, the university is now compost of seven divisions locating at Hat Yai campus and two divisions locating at Pattani campus. The General Affairs division is one of the seven divisions in Hat Yai campus, and it is further divided into six sub-divisions as follows:

1. Document and File Sub-division,
2. Committee Meeting Service Sub-division,
3. Public Relation Sub-division,
4. Secretariat Service Sub-division,
5. Bangkok Liaison office Sub-division,
6. Faculty Senate Service Sub-division.

Finance Division

The finance division is responsible for managing the overall accounting, budgetary disbursement, financial services operations of the university; including the processing of monthly salary payment of the university personnel and collecting of education fees from students. Its other duties are to supervise, advise, and control the general operation of financial unit of each faculty of the university in order to ensure legal compliance and establish and promote standard of good practice regarding financial operation. The finance division is divided into 6 sub-divisions, namely:
1. Disbursement and Book keeping Sub-division
2. Budgetary Sub-division
3. Accounting Sub-division
4. Revenue Sub-division
5. Materials and Supplies Sub-division
6. Document and File Sub-division

Personnel Division

Vision:
To be a division which provides good quality services on human resources information to the satisfaction of our personnel and the university.

Mission:
1. Provide services on personnel information accurately, quickly, fairly and impartially;
2. Manage the data base system which is accurate and up to date;
3. Systematically and continuously develop the potential of our personnel;

Goal:
1. Support and develop personnel management activities of the university;
2. Operate the personnel administration of the university efficiently, accurately and fairly according to the government and university rules and regulations;
3. Provide up to date information, suggestion, recommendation, or answer inquiry concerning with personnel administration to university executives, university internal organizations, and university personnel, quickly and accurately.

Buildings and Ground Division

Vision:
To provide university welfares and services quickly and satisfactorily to our personnel.

Mission:
-To supervise construction works and utilization of usable area of the Campus;
-To manage and maintain transport and accommodation services, meeting and seminar rooms and facilities, university public utilities and facilities, house registration records,
-To control and manage security system, environmental problems and landscaping works of the campus;
-To repair and manage the maintenance of university buildings, and provide necessary facilities support for student and staff activities.

Policy:
Honesty, accuracy, promptness, up to date and environmentally mindedness;

Student Affairs Division

The student affairs division is officially an organizational unit within the Office of the President since 1979. Initially it consisted of three sub-divisions and one unit, namely, counseling and job placement, Student Services and Welfares, Student Affairs sub-divisions and Clerical Service unit. On September 20, 1988, the Clerical Service unit has been raised to the sub-division status and subsequently, on December 3, 2004, two additional units, namely the Information Unit and the International Affairs Unit were added.

Planning Division

The principal roles of the Planning Division are to provide necessary information to support the decision making of university executives, to coordinate and give advices to the Faculties and organizational units of the university in devising policies and plans and in utilization of resources, and to follow up and make the assessment of the results systematically. The division’s objective is to perform its duty efficiently in a service-consciousness manner employing the proactive approach, as well as to design and implement institutional research. Realizing that the possession of ready to use and up to date information is a prerequisite to gain the trust of those concerned, and a necessary ingredient for the university to achieve its objective, the Planning Division is committed to continually develop and improve its information system.

Education Services Division

The Education Service Division was formally established in 1979, to be the central unit which provides necessary support in working out the policy and intention of the university according to its primary mission in the management of education, research, academic services and international relation. It is the duty of this division to carry out the policy coordination so as to bring about the best practice in the Faculty, college, center, institute, consistent with the vision, mission, strategic and tactical plans of the university.
Prior to the establishment of the Office of Academic Services, the Education Service Division is structurally compost of seven sub-divisions, namely, Curricula and Faculty Development, Research and Text Book Support, Academic Services, Registration, Central Library, International Affairs, General Affairs sub-divisions. In 1989 the Central Library was elevated to a department status and renamed KhunYing Athakravisunthorn Learning Resources Center, under the Office of Academic Services. The Research and Text Book Support sub-division was transferred to the Research and Development Office in 2004. In order that the Student Admission Unit, originally a unit under the Academic Services sub-division, could function more efficiently, it was elevated to a full sub-division status in 2005. At the present, the Education Services Division consists of six sub-divisions:
1. Curricula and Faculty Development,
2. Registration Office,
3. Academic Services,
4. International Affairs,
5. Student Admission,
6. General Administration.

Research and Development Office

Determination Statement:
To power and drive Prince of Songkla University towards excellence in research.

Shared Value:
Ready and willing to learn and change for a lasting and stable progress of the organization.

Vision:
To be an active supporting unit in administration and management of research works in order to power, and develop Prince of Songkla University into an efficient research-intensive university.

Mision:
1. To organize/ develop system and mechanism which can comprehensively support the administration and management of the researches of the university.
2. To support fully the development of projects and research works in order that they may progress as scheduled, and completed efficiently and with quality.
3. To support the publication and dissemination of research works, and to stimulate the application of researches in appropriate target groups when the proper situation arises.
4. To support/ incubate special projects which are involve with or being the infra-structures necessary for the development of Prince of Songkla University in order to become a research-intensive university.

Task:
1. To utilize the policy, directions, strategy for researches, of the university in the coordination of works between various research units.
2. To support the integration between researches and graduate studies so that both are benefited.
3. To develop researchers in various fields such as in the management of research, development of research proposal, research paper writing, researcher ethics, creating new researchers etc.
4. To acquire and distribute research funds from both within and outside the university.
5. To arrange for/ support the university researchers to obtain research funds as well as to help develop research proposal which may attract funding from both inside and outside the country; and to develop other research supporting systems.
6. To manage research information system.
7. To manage the university research funds.
8. To support the publication and dissemination of research work, and the publishing of PSU Journals.
9. To promote research works in order that they may be utilized.
10. To systematically classify research works, carry out the management of research works in a proactive manner, and manage the intellectual properties of the researchers.
11. To organize or create research clusters/ networks within and outside the university, or with partners outside the country.
12. To initiate new research groups, nurture or incubate them in order to help developing them into research institutes or centers of excellence.
13. To coordinate to organize research consortium with outside organizations, societies, communities, industries, in the quest for research questions, joint researches and in making use of the research works.
14. To follow up, assess and carry out quality assurance of the research projects in Prince of Songkla Uiversity.
15. To perform other works in response to the research policy of the university.

For further information or inquiry, contact : 0-7428-6940-2, Fax : 0-7421
website (Thai) http://rdo.psu.ac.th/rdo-psu/

Office of Extension and Continuing Education

Community service is one of the main duties of the University. It is a significant means for the University to apply its wealth of resources for the benefit of society. The Office of Extension and Continuing Education was established in 1986 with the primary responsibility of providing education services to the community. The purpose is to promote continuing education and extension study in order to improve the quality of life for the local, regional and national communities.

The Office of Extension and Continuing Education has organized its internal administrative system according to the regulation of Prince of Songkla University on the administration of the Office of Extension and Continuing Education, B.E. 1986. The office consists of a director, one or two deputy directors and two distinct sets of committees. The office is run by the Administrative Committee chaired by the director of the Office of Extension and Continuing Education, oversees by the Board of Committee of the Office of Extension and Continuing Education chaired by the president of Prince of Songkla University.

website : http://exten.pn.psu.ac.th/index.php

Office of Quality Assurance

The Office of Quality Assurance is a principal unit of the university which devises and develops quality assurance system in order to internationalize Prince of Songkla University.

Objectives

• To devise and develop quality assurance system so as to be consistent and responsive to the vision, mission, goal, objective and tactic of Prince of Songkla University.
• To integrate quality assurance system comprehensively, clearly and concretely in every step, every level of operation in order to instill quality culture in the university.
• To develop the Office of Quality Assurance into an efficient supporting unit.
• To coordinate and develop cooperation on quality assurance between Prince of Songkla University and outside organizations.

contact phone number     0-7428-2940, 0-7428-2822

website(Thai)      http://www.qa.psu.ac.th/

Office of Academic Services

Vision: The Office of Academic Services is an organization which carries out all of its services in a highly professional manner, and up to national standard.

Mission: 1. Provide learning resources in support of the research-based university through the e-library, and to cooperate in the development of the society of wisdom.
2. Produce services and disseminate education technology innovation to support the university main mission in order to become a research intensive university and e-university.
3. Develop administrative and management system to efficiently support the main mission of the Office of Academic Services, and to further develop itself into an organization of learning.

History: The Office of Academic Services was set up on May 24, 1989 by combining together the 4 existing units which dealt with academic services, namely, the John F. Kennedy Library, the Education Technology Center (renamed as Education Technology Division), KhunYing Long Athakravisunthorn Learning Resources Center, and the Faculty of Medicine Library (renamed as Health Science Library). Later on an additional unit, the secretary office has been set up.

website : < href="http://oas.psu.ac.th/oas/index.php">http://oas.psu.ac.th/oas/index.php

Office of PSU History Hall

       The Office of PSU History Hall is a place of valuable source of information in the context of evoking and honoring our renowned institution’s fame. It is a place to keep for posterity important records of the past history and proud achievement of our beloved university; the history of the integration of ideology and aspiration of HRH Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, the university name sake, and the fulfillment of the noble objectives of the university. It is also a place to inspire and motivate us to carry on the admirable purposes of the university, to nurture and foster the university so that it can stand up strongly and proudly as an equal to the best universities of the region, and of the world.

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7428-2038,
website http://www.psuhistory.psu.ac.th/

Office of PSU Alumni Relations



Office of PSU Alumni Relationsh2>

About us:

From the date of the establishment of Prince of Songkla University, the first university in Southern Thailand, up to the present time (academic year 2006) which is all together 41 years, the University has produced 37 batches of graduates totaling over 70,000, for all degree levels. Our University alumni are working all over the country in every province, and some are working abroad. Various groups of our alumni have banded together and have formed many associations or clubs around the country. Most of these may be grouped into four categories, namely, the PSU Alumni Association, provincialwise grouping, facultywise grouping, and campuswise grouping. Normally the main purposes of these groupings are for organizing activities relating to the University or socializing in special occasions once or twice a year. All their activities are disjointed and there is no mechanism that can coordinate these activities or systematically link them with the University to utilize the University resources for promotion purposes.

In order to create opportunities for these alumni associations and clubs to stay in touch with the University and to seek their cooperation in such matters as supplying information for graduate quality improvement, advising on employment opportunities, proposing research problems, supporting or funding University researches, promoting and participating in University activities, as well as uniting their efforts in creating a powerful and sustainable driving force necessary to help propel the development of the University; a new approach in managing alumni resources must be initiated.

On two occasions, on April, 30, 2005 and on September 2006, informal meetings took place between the University and a group of alumni who has been actively involved in several alumni associations and clubs. A consensus has been reached that an office “ The Office of Alumni Relations” be established to act as the focal point to systematically coordinate and link all PSU alumni associations and clubs together and to provide impetus for the concerted effort in helping to develop our beloved University.

Mission:

To unite physically and spiritually all Prince of Songkla University alumni in order to upheld the honor and prestige of our institution.

Goals:






1. To promote and create good relationship between alumni and the University.
   
2. To act as the center to coordinate academic cooperation, researches, student development, and campaign for University development fund between alumni and the University.
   
3. To set up and develop alumni data base system.
   
4. To support the setting up of alumni network of each campus and to honor alumni who carry out works that benefit the public, society, and the University.
   
5. To avoid involvement in partisan politics.**
   


Contact Address:
Prince of Songkla University, 2 Floor, 15 Kanjanavanich Road,Had Yai District, Songkla, 90110

Telephone : 0-7428-2209
Fax: 0-7444-6975
Website : http://www.alumni-psu.psu.ac.th

Internal Audit Unit

The internal financial auditing of government organizations arose from the recommendation submitted to the Cabinet by the Finance Ministry. It was recommended in 1976 that all government organizations at the levels of Ministry, Bureau, Department or equivalence should be allotted manpower entrusted with the specific task of internal financial auditing of the organizations. The Cabinet had sanctioned the recommendation and instructed the Civil Service Commission to consider and allocate necessary manpower required for the task to all government organizations. Prince of Songkla University has been allotted 2 positions for internal auditors in 1978, and has since carried out its internal financial auditing. The audit unit is located on the third floor of the building of the Office of the President, Hat Yai Campus, and is informally named the Internal Audit Unit of Prince of Songkla University.

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7428-2014 – 9
website (Thai) http://www.audit.psu.ac.th/

Registration Office

The registration office is a central administration unit responsible for the processing of enrollment, scheduling classrooms and examination, overseeing the processing and distribution of grades, verifying completion of degree requirements and keeping of official university record of all students of Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai Campus. Its mains duties including:

• Arrange and carry out the registration of newly admitted students.
• Keep personal and academic records of students, and update these data regularly.
• Organize subject registration for students, for each semester.
• Issue Student Identity Cards.
• Co-ordinate class scheduling and assigning of teaching rooms for each subjects.
• Co-ordinate examination timetabling and assigning of examination venues.
• Arrange for the signing of compulsory contracts for medical and dentistry students.
• Provide detailed working schedule on the processing of examination results, and calculating the GPA of students for each semester.
• Announce the results of academic performance of students for each semester.
• Carry out the program completion verification for students of every program of study, and submit the results to the University Council for the granting of degrees/ diploma.
• Prepare the production of Degree/Diploma certificates.
• Issue transcripts.
• Issue certified education-related documents.
• Provide counter services to students.

Website  http://reg.psu.ac.th/

Curriculum and Staff Development Unit

Curriculum and staff development unit is part of the Education Service Division of the Office of the President. Its duty is to support and coordinate the policy management of the main mission of the University; to educate and produce graduates who are knowledgeable, ethically sound, possess life-skill, public conscience and life-long knowledge seeking attitude. The graduates should possess international competency founded on Thai traditional values.

Website: http://www.eduservice.psu.ac.th/index.htm

PSU Supporting Staff Council, Hat Yai Campus

The PSU Supporting Staff Council (Hat Yai Campus) was first set up in 2003 according to a regulation of Prince of Songkla University; it is under the supervision of the Vice President for Hat Yai Campus. The council members consists of representative members from each faculty/ or equivqlent organizations in the campus, and nominated members (nominated by the president of the Supporting Staff Council). The number of nominated members may not exceed half of the number of the representative members. The term of the council members is 2-years. Administratively, the Supporting Staff Council is divided into 5 sections, namely, the secretariat, academic and development, public relation, finance, welfare and special activity sections. For the 2004-2005 period, the number of Supporting Staff Council (Hat Yai Campus) members totaled 27.

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7428-8021
website (Thai) http://www.senate.psu.ac.th/

PSU Faculty Senate (Hat Yai Campus)

It is a unit set up by the regulation of the University Council on Prince of Songkla University Faculty Senate B.E. 1979. The Faculty Senate duties are as follows:
1. To advice and offer suggestions to the university on the following matters:
     1.1  academic and administration,
     1.2  rules and regulation pertaining to the appointment of university staff to administrative and academic positions,
     1.3  academic promotion of faculty members,
     1.4  learning, teaching and research,
     1.5  preservation of arts and culture,
     1.6  providing academic services of various nature,
     1.7  policy concerning with students affairs,
     1.8  other matters which the Faculty Senate, or Campus Faculty Senate deem to be of help in improving the business of the university,
     1.9  any matter requested by the university.
2. To protect benefits of all personnel of the university.
3. To maintain professional standard and ethics of faculty members.
4. To issue rules and regulations of Campus Faculty Senate/ Faculty Senate.

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7421-8401
website http://www.faculty-senate.psu.ac.th/

PSU Staff Club, Hat Yai Campus

PSU Staff Club, Hat Yai Campus

website (Thai) : http:// staffclub.psu.ac.th/

PSU Saving and Credit Co-operative Limited

     PSU Saving and Credit Co-operative Limited was established in 1974 with 169 foundation members, and initial share capital of 8,440 Baht. The first chair man of the cooperative administrative board was Prof. Sawas Sakulthai, the fourth president of Prince of Songkla University. The primary aims of the cooperative are;
     1. Encourage its members to save by holding its share and deposit money with the cooperative.
     2. Lend money to its members for use in necessary or useful activities.

     At the present, PSU Saving and Credit Co-operative Limited has 4 service offices:

     1. Head Office, situated at the Sawas Sakulthai Building (opposite the computer center building), Hat Yai Campus, Prince of Songkla University,
     2. Faculty of Medicine Branch Office, situated on the ground floor of the main building of Songklanagarind Hospital,
     3. Pattani Campus Branch Office,
     4. Phuket Campus Branch Office, located on the first floor of the Academic Service Building, Phuket Campus.

PSU Saving and Credit Co-operative Limited has opened special counter service at its Head Office for personal tax payment, every working day, from 08.30 – 15.30, with a nominal service charged of 15.- Baht per transaction.

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7421-2812, 0-7421-1811, 0-7428-6930 –
website http://psucoop.psu.ac.th/

PSU Service Co-operative, Limited

The PSU Service Co-operative Limited has been involved in the following businesses.
1. Licensed to build and manage several dormitory buildings, over 3,400 rooms, at all five campuses of the University.
2. Run a center that offers the production and sale of various university memorabilia, such as pens, key rings, T-shirt etc.
3. Run the Hat Yai Campus gas station, bicycle repaired-shops, coffee shops.

Address: 15 Kanjanavanich, Tambon Hat Yai, Hat Yai District, Songkla Province, Thailand. 90110 Tel. 0-7428-2314 – 8

For further information or inquiry, contact 0-7428-2314 – 8
website (Thai) http://sercoop.psu.ac.th/

Map and Directions

Hat Yai Campus Location/ Direction Map

View Larger Map

Map of Hat Yai Campus

1. Statue of HRH Prince Mahidol Adulyadej
2. Office of the President
3. Front Gate (Kanjanavanich Road Gate)
4. Songklanagarind Hospital
5. Soccer Field
6. Main Soccer Field
7. Faculty of Dentistry
8. Faculty of Medicine
9. Faculty of Nursing
10. Physician/Nurse Dormitories
11. Faculty of Science
12. Graduate School/ Central Facility and Academic Service Building
13. Khunying Long Learning Resources Center
14. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
15. Faculty of Natural resources
16. Faculty of Engineering
17. Faculty of Agro-Industry
18. Faculty of Liberal Arts
19. Faculty of Management Sciences
20. Computer Center
21. Faculty of Law
22. Information Technology Building
23. Sports Complex/ Gymnasium
24. Student Union/ Food Center
25. Student Dormitories
26. Reservoir
27. Srisarp Gate (Punnakan Road Gate)
28. Prince of Songkla University International Convention Center
29. Mor-Or Withayanusorn School
30. Faculty and staff Residential area

Facilities, Services and Welfares for Students

Khunying Long Athakravisunthorn Learning Resources Center
It is fully equipped with books data base, on-line books and journals search system and e-journals. Faculties and students can borrow and return books cross-campuses, or cross-institutions (for the institutions that are in collaboration with the University). The opening hours for KhunYing Long Athakravisunthorn Learning Resources Center are as follows:
1. First Semester:
     Monday-Friday    08.30 – 22.30
     Saturday            09.00-20.00
     Sunday              09.00-20.00
     Two weeks before the start of final examination-the end of the final examinaton: Extend the closing time to 24.00.
2. Second Semester:
     Monday-Friday    08.30 – 22.30
     Saturday            09.00-20.00
     Sunday              09.00-20.00
     Two weeks before the start of final examination-the end of the final examinaton: Extend the closing time to 24.00.
3. Summer Semester Sesson:
     Monday-Friday    08.30 – 22.30
     Saturday            09.00-20.00
     Sunday                    closed
4. Semester Breaks
     Monday-Friday    08.30 – 16.30
     Saturday-Sunday     Close
5. Public Holiday:          Close

Enquire about opening time at Tel: 2352, 0-7428-2352, or e-mail : sitthichai.l@psu.ac.th
Website http://www.clib.psu.ac.th

Sport and Athletic Facilities
The available sport and athletic facilities at Hat Yai Campus are as follows:
     1. Swimming pool
     2. Gymnasium
     3. Soccer fields (2)
     4. Tennis Courts (5)
     5. Outdoor volleyball court
     6. Outdoor basketball court
     7. Softball field
     8. Petanque court
     9. Fitness center

Computer Center
The Computer Center has acquired a large number of PCs and soft wares in order to provide up to date computer services to PSU students, faculty and staff. An excellence net work has been set up to link computers at every faculties and offices within the campus together so that the users can access the internet from anywhere in the Campus.
More details are available at the Computer Center website http://www.cc.psu.ac.th/

Cafeteria and shops
Cafeteria and shops are located at the “Rong-Charng” Food Center. They include minimarts, coffee shops, laundries, beauty saloons, gift shops, copy shops, food kiosks, computer shops, book stores.

Claiming of Mails, Parcels and Postal Order
A student whose mails are addressed to a university dormitory or to a faculty may claim his/ her mails at the respective dormitory office or faculty office. In claiming the mails, the student must produce his/ her student identity card or citizen identity card for examination by the responsible officers. The addressees may search for their EMS mails, registered letters or parcels, postal order or DHL at http://docfinder.psu.ac.th/post/.However, (however, normal unregistered mails cannot be searched for).

Examples of the addressing of letters or parcels.
1. An addressee who stays in a dormitory in the Campus, and want to have his/ her mail sent to the dormitory, should have his/ her room number and the dormitory name specified clearly. For example,
To
Mr. ……………………………….,
Dormitory…………………….Room……………………
Prince of Songkla University,
Hat Yai District, Songkla Province, 90112.

2. An addressee who wants to have his/ her mail sent to a faculty should have his/ her mail addressed as shown below.

To
Mr. ……………………………….,
Faculty of ………………….…………………
Prince of Songkla University,
Hat Yai District, Songkla Province, 90112.

Cafeteria and shops

Cafeterias and shops are located at the “Rong-Charng” Food Center. They include minimarts, coffee shops, laundries, beauty salons, gift shops, copy shops, food kiosks, computer shops, book stores.

Hospitals

There are two hospitals at Prince of Songkla University Hat Yai Campus.

1. Songklanagarind Hospital which is a tertiary hospital for the people of the fourteen southern most provinces of Thailand. It is a place of learning and practice for medical students/ residents/ fellowships and students of other health science disciplines. It is also a prime source of research for personnel of various health science professions.
2. Dental Hospital which is the hospital of the Faculty of Dentistry, Prince of Songkla University. It has been established as the center of dental service for Southern Thailand and a training place for dental students. It has become the base for dental clinical research and dental technology development of the Faculty of Dentistry.

• Songklanagarind Hospital
• Dental Hospital

Libraries

HAT Yai Campus has two main libraries; Khunying Long Athakravisunthorn Learning Resources Center, and the the Health Science Library which was originally “the Library of the Faculty of Medicine, Hat Yai Campus, Prince of Songkla University”.