The Covid-19 pandemic may have paused the world, but it cannot alter the passion of newcomers joining AIT. This was exhibited by the high number of the new students joining the Hybrid Orientation Ceremony for the Fall Semester 2020 on August 3, with 168 new students attending in-person at the campus and more than 200 new students from countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and North America joining online.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE EXPERIENCE
By Megha Bajaj
I have mixed feelings while writing about my exchange experience at the University of Granada in Spain. Going to Granada as an exchange student was a great learning opportunity for me.
By Claire-Victoria Carles
Exchange Student for Microelectronics and Embedded Systems (MES), School of Engineering and Technology, AIT
Hey, I’m Claire from France!
I came to AIT during the Spring Semester 2020 from Polytech Nice Sophia in France on a student exchange program.
By Santaute Venslaviene
Currently, I am studying at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in Lithuania, in the Faculty of Business Management. I am a PhD student in the Financial Engineering Department. I write to tell you about my three-month Erasmus exchange experience at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand.
By Ying Chen
As an MBA student of the School of Management at the Asian Institute of Technology, I received a great opportunity to study abroad for a semester at EDHEC Business School in France from September to December in 2019. A grande école in France, EDHEC specializes in business and management studies.
By Babita Sharma
China has always been a country of interest to me, so when we got the list of institutes for the Fall exchange program, I immediately applied for Tsinghua University. I was also very lucky to receive the first scholarship from ‘Laws group Charity Student Exchange Scholarship’ which paid for half of my expenses during the exchange program.
Asian Instititute of Technology (AIT) is the most international university in Thailand offering master’s and PhD programs in engineering and technology, environment and sustainability, and management. The current study body represents 40 countries around the world with the alumni network of more than 25,000 from over 100 countries around the world.
Blog Post by Way Way Hlaing*
“It’s hard to be away from the ones you love,
And the days seem to slowly drift by…”
I whispered these lines from a song as soon as I woke up on my very first morning at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Because of my late arrival and tiredness after a long journey, against my curious nature, I fell asleep in the strange room without noticing the time of night or my new environment.
Blog Post by Pragya Thapaliya
After hours of waiting at the airport for fellow students from different flights to arrive, our Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) van with Students' Union volunteers and us — the newbies finally took off around 10:30 pm.
Financial Times (Sri Lanka) and the Colombo Telegraph have a full-page article based on an interview with AIT President Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai. The article written by W A Wijewardena, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, delves on Prof.