School Quota: The quota is open to high school students studying in the provinces of Nakhon Ratchasima, Chaiyaphum, Buriram, Surin, Si Sa Ket, Chacheongsao, Chonburi, Rayong, and Prachinburi. Applicants must have a GPA in all subjects of not less than 2.50.

Provincial Quota: The quota is open to high school students studying in all schools in every province (except Nakhon Ratchasima, Chaiyaphum, Buri Ram, Surin, Si Saket, Chacheongsao, Chonburi, Rayong and Prachinburi). Applicants must have a GPA, in all subjects, of not less than 2.50.

Quota for Students with Outstanding Academic Performance in Science and Technology: The quota is open to high school students studying in all schools in every province, and having good academic performance in science. The applicants must be selected through competitive activities, e.g. participating in the Academic Training Camp 2 held by the Promotion of Academic Olympiads and Development of Science Education Foundation, reaching the final round of Thailand's Development of Computer Programming Competition, being admitted to participate in Young Scientists Project in Computer Science and Engineering Programs held by the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, or receiving a reward from Science Project Competition
held by the Science Society of Thailand under the Patronage of His Majesty the King, or other activities held by the national organizations of which the university approves. The outstanding students will be waived the credit charges and academic fees for the first academic year, and also for the following year if they get a GPA, in all subjects, of not less than 3.00.

Scholastic Athlete Quota: The quota is open to high school students who are athletes in the sports that the university agrees on, and have either of the following qualifications: winning the championship or runner-ups in the provincial sport events, or being selected to be an athlete representative for a province and participate in sport events that the province does not hold, or having experiences in provincial sport events of not less than one year. The students who obtain the quota will have to be SUT athletes to participate in Thailand University Games. They will be waived the university's dormitory fee as long as they are the university athletes, get supplementary academic tutorials as needed, receive merit certificates, and waived the credit charges if they succeed in the sports determined by the university.

Quota for Talented Students in Music and Performing Arts: The quota is open to high school
students who have the talent for international music, Thai music, Northeastern folk music, performing arts, or singing, including those who are school musicians and arts performers certified by the school. The students who are admitted by this quota will have to participate in music and dancing activities or other events as required by the university. They will get 50 percent discount for the university's dormitory fee as long as they satisfy the university requirements.

     The general education curriculum is the core program for all undergraduates. Interdisciplinary in
nature, the curriculum integrates science, technology, social science, and humanities. Concepts of integrity, ethics, and the self-sufficiency economy are also embedded in the content of curriculum. Students of all major fields study together under the supervision of qualified experts from inside and outside the university. SUT's general education curriculum is generally acclaimed and used as a model by other educational institutions.

      Suranaree University of Technology includes Cooperative Education and Career Development as an integral part of its undergraduate curriculum. This is considered an important innovation in Thailandus higher education pioneered by Suranaree University of Technology. Cooperative Education that combines classroom-based education with real workplace experience through good principles and systems. This system requires that students work full time in the workplace for 16 weeks or one semester.

      They are to perform in the workplace as if they were the employees of an organization that employs the university graduates. They will have a chance to apply what they have learned in class, to promote their working and social skills, and to qualify as desirable graduates for the prospective employers. According to the survey of an organizationus satisfaction on studentsu job performance in 2006, it was ranked at a umuchu level. In addition, the percentage of SUT graduates being employed is 78.

      Suranaree University of Technology has implemented educational quality assurance since the academic year 1998 and has been carrying out its tasks continually, with the system and mechanism for educational quality assurance corresponding well to the university management philosophy of Centralized Services, Coordinated Taskse. SUTus educational quality assurance is conducted basing on the tasks of educational services for undergraduate and graduate levels, research, public academic services, and arts and cultural promotion and preservation.

      The university also adjusted its indicators and matched them with those of the Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment (Public Organization) (ONESQA). More importantly, SUT has utilized the results of the assessment to determine approaches to strengthening its capacity and correcting its problems for further improvements. Accordingly, SUT can plan ahead on the policies and development, do the strategic planning and put it into concrete practice for the highest achievement. This has brought better quality, and more effective and efficient educational management to the university in a consistent manner.

      Since 2007, SUT has re-adjusted the university development indicators in accordance with the indicators set by the Commission on Higher Education, except 41 indicators for Graduates Production and Social Development, and Graduates Production and Arts and Cultural Development, and collapsed some of its own indicators making it a total of 9 areas with 46 indicators for quality assurance.

     Suranaree University of Technology accepted the Civil Aviation Training Center as an affiliated institution to join hands in producing and training aviation personnel. Activities consisted of joint instructional and curriculum development and mutual work tours and visits for better instructional management.

     Suranaree University of Technology has participated in the Government Mega Project for the
Production of More Medical Doctors and the Project of One District One Doctor (ODOD) in order to solve the problem of medical doctor shortages in the country as a whole and in various regions of the country. In so doing, the university has joined hands with the Surin and Buriram Hospitals under the supervision of the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. This cooperation is in harmony with the national policy for state organizations to share limited resources for the optimal benefits. SUT is held responsible for 4 provinces in the lower Northeastern region, e.g. Nakhon Ratchasima, Chaiyaphum, Buriram, and Surin.
     In the 2006 academic year, the university admitted the first batch of 48 undergraduate medical
students. Currently, there are 2 batches or a total of 96 undergraduate medical students.