Doctoral program in built environment at Kasetsart Architecture Department is one of the most eminent graduate curricular of its kind in Thailand, establishing high-level, human-environment education and research since 2008. The program’s objective aims to foster Ph.D. graduates for constructing original and critical knowledge of high-level, built-environment studies on human environments and sustainability, in a broad range of scales, upon integrated knowledge platforms through academic research-oriented environment. It focuses on nurturing new potential researchers for future challenges in local and global circumstances as well as historical, socio-cultural, and theoretical acknowledgement.
This doctoral program expects to seek prospective applicants who have an attempt to enhance specialized research in built environment. Prospective applicants who hold degrees and research background experience of architecture, arts, landscape, urban planning, engineering, social science, and related fields are cordially encouraged for an application. Ph.D. in Built Environment creates opportunities for graduates who intend to pursue future careers for a university faculty and academic researchers in built environment in high-level, educational institutes as well as think tanks in government and private organizations.
This three-year curriculum of the doctoral program in built environment offers two study options.
- The first option consists of 48-credit committed research and seminars, appropriate for experienced researchers who develop rigorously critical research topics.
- The second option for research novices takes up one year of the 12-credit core courses: Built Environment Development, Advanced Research Methods, Academic Writing, and seminars, and 36-credit committed research approved by a given board of committees.
Moreover, all doctoral students are expected to pass all three examinations: a qualifying exam, a proposal exam, and a final defense of research.
Prospective applicants please feel comfortable to contact Kasetsart graduate faculties of Department of Architecture for research interests, or alternatively please contact
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อ.ดร. คัทลียา จิรประเสริฐกุล DR. CUTTALEEYA JIRAPRASERTKUN at email:
archcyn@ku.ac.th