Shinawatra University

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Shinawatra University

มหาวิทยาลัยชินวัตร (Thai) 西那瓦国际大学 (Chinese)
Former name	Metharath University
Type	Private
Established	1999
Founder	Thaksin Shinawatra
President	Zhou Fei (Price Chow)
Location	Thailand
Campus	Pathum Thani
Website	www.siu.ac.th
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	西那瓦国际大学
Traditional Chinese	西那瓦國際大學
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xīnàwǎ Guójì Dàxué

Shinawatra University (SIU), formerly Metharath University (MRU), is a private international university in Thailand, established by Thaksin Shinawatra and his colleagues. The campus was designed and developed by Soontorn Boonyatikarn in 1997. The Ministry of University Affairs granted the license for operation in 1999. The first Shinawatra University Council Meeting was held on 19 May 2000, and the first batch of students was admitted in September 2002. As of 2018, the university had students and faculty members of over 30 nationalities.