The three students who took the AIT score to 100 — Juan Camilo Polania
Siculaba (Colombia), Natasha Otilie Kaunapawa Nuujoma (Namibia), and
Joel Hindowa Kamanda (Sierra Leone) graduated with a Master’s in
Science in Urban Water Engineering and Management.
These students were among the 508 students from 27 countries that
graduated at the 123rd graduation of the Asian Institute of Technology
(AIT) on 22 May 2015. The graduating students came from Asia,
Australia, Europe, Africa and South America. Sri Lanka with 123
graduates top the list of graduates, followed by Myanmar (79), Thailand
(73), Vietnam (61), Nepal with 57 graduates. Three countries from
Europe (Austria, France and the United Kingdom), six from Africa
(Cameroon, Namibia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Tanzania), and 16
countries from Asia, and one each from Australia and South America were
represented at the graduation, testifying AIT’s enduring
internationality.
AIT’s internationality is university recognized, and recently it tied
for the title of the world’s top internationality university in the
U-Multirank 2015 Institutional Ranking released last week. It had
claimed joint top rank in the ‘international orientation’ dimension of
the newest global university ranking among 1,200 universities from 83
countries. It stood out as the only university in Asia among the top 41
universities in the world to receive full scores under ‘international
orientation’. AIT earned straight “A” grades for its student mobility,
international academic staff, international joint publications and
international doctorate degrees.
AIT President Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai highlighted the Institute’s
internationality in his Graduation Message describing AIT as a “Small
Global Village for Future Leaders”. By learning about each other’s
culture on a day-to-day basis, AIT students naturally learn to
appreciate diversity, he added.
