Brief 05

Brief 05

Researching a university

Sometimes the work is not a business problem. A family asks you to help them compare universities, often because they want a second pair of eyes on English-language pages and deadlines. That can be useful. It can also drift, without a scope, into unofficial admissions advice you are not in a position to give.

Start by naming the question in one line. "Which of these three programs can be studied in English, and what do they cost this year?" is a question you can research. "Where should my child go?" is not, unless you are actually an admissions counsellor, and this workshop does not assume that you are.

Use primary pages from the universities themselves for intake dates, language of instruction and fees. Those figures change. If you need a single place that already sets a few Thai universities next to each other, a 2026 comparison of English-taught study at Chulalongkorn, Mahidol and Thammasat is a reasonable starting point, and then you go back to each university to confirm anything the client will rely on.

Write down the date you checked each fact. Hand the client a table with sources, not a recommendation dressed up as a fact. If they then ask you to contact a faculty or to fill in an application, that is a new scope, and it may be work you should decline.