History was made today when twelve students from five
countries attended their first day of classes as undergraduates at AIT
on November 2.
Fifty years after eighteen graduate students from three countries
enrolled at the SEATO Graduate School of Engineering, which would later
become the Asian Institute of Technology, a similarly small group of
students from India, Nepal, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand ushered in a
new era for undergraduate education at AIT.
Welcomed along with their families by administration officials on
undergraduate Orientation Day on October 29 the newcomers, ranging
from sixteen to twenty years of age, quickly learned the significance
of their decision to attend AIT. “You are all making history as the
first ever batch of undergraduates at AIT,” the Head of the AIT Student
Office Ann Lopez-Fontanilla said.