Kanchanaburi Rajabhat University started in 1973 as Kanchanaburi Teachers College. It attained university status in 2004. It started with departments of teacher education and humanities followed by a faculty of science and technology.
It offers 34 degree programmes spread across faculties of education, management science, industrial technology, science and technology, music, law and digital content design grouped under humanities and social science.
Graduate programmes are offered in curriculum and learning management by the faculty of education, which also runs a demonstration school for maths, science and philology.
Exchange language-based programmes are run with two Chinese institutions, Guangxi National University and Dongfang College of Foreign Languages.