The objectives of the study were to find the survival probabilities the hazard rates of dropping out of the technical diploma level students at Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon North Bangkok Campus and the factors influencing on the hazard rates of students dropout. The sample was the students enrolling in the university in 2005. The study found that for the first semester the survival probabilities of students in all divisions were high ranging from 0.9210 to 1.00. For the second semester the survival probabilities of students in all divisions ranged from 0.7820 to 0.8815 except Industrial Technology which had a maximum value of 0.9295 and Metal Technology which had a minimum value of 0.6271. For the third and the fourth semester there were 6 divisions which had survival probabilities ranging from 0.7142 to 0.7971. They were Tool and Die Making Computer Technology Electrical Technology Electronics Automatic Machine and Production design. There were 4 divisions which had survival probabilities ranging from 0.8275 to 0.8732. They were Mechanical Tool Technology Business Computer Mechanical Power and Industrial Technology. The division of Metal Technology had the minimum value of 0.5932. For the first semester the hazard rates of dropping of students in all divisions were low ranging from 0.00 to 0.0822. For the second semester the hazard rates of dropping of students in all divisions ranged from 0.1260 to 0.2458 except Industrial Technology which had a minimum value of 0.0730 and Metal Technology which had a maximum value of 0.5221. For the third and the fourth semester the hazard rates of dropping of students in all divisions ranged from 0.1355 to 0.2962 except Metal Technology which had the maximum value of 0.5932 and Tool and Die Making which had the value of 0.3364. The factors influencing on hazard rates of students dropout were place of previous school region of previous school and grade point average of previous school. The hazard rate of dropping of students graduating from schools in the central region (not including Bangkok Metropolitan Area) was 43.8% (0.562 times) less than the hazard rate of dropping of students graduating from schools in Bangkok Metropolitan Area. The hazard rate of dropping of students having grade point average of 3.10-3.50 and 3.51-4.00 from previous school was 43.1% (0.569 times) and 63.7% (0.377 times) less than the hazard rate of dropping of students having grade point average of 2.00-2.50 respectively.

This research applied the qualitative research methodology which used in‐depth interviews. A purposive sampling was selected to find 40 people who related to the activities. The results of the research are as follows: 1. Students who organized the freshmen welcoming activities did not have a risk assessment plan. They had only simple action plan. There were not only freshmen welcoming activities but also welcoming activities for sophomore entering to their majors. Senior students only from the Technology in radio and television program (RT) appeared to have SOTUS system behind. 2. The freshmen academic year 2020 wanted to participate in the activities because they want to make friends and want to be familiar with senior friends. Freshmen also wanted sophomore guide them about their studies and university lives. Freshmen understood their rights and knew how to protect themselves from uncreative activities. They thought that appropriate activities such as faculty sports career guidance activities recreational activities singing and games. 3. Faculty members staffs of the Faculty of Mass Communication Technology andoutsiders expected that the creative model for freshmen welcoming activities should organize sport games recreational activities. Professional activities should be benefit to the communities and public service activities should build good image of the profession.

The study entitled “A Case Study: Patterns of Freshman Welcoming Activities at Faculty of Liberal Arts Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon” a mixedmethod research aims to investigate the patterns effects and students ’attitudes towards freshman welcoming activities. The participants in this study were the first- to the fourth-year university students from four majors including Applied Thai English for International Communication Hotel Management and Tourism. The participants can be divided into two groups: the participants of freshman welcoming activities (the first-year university students N = 132) and the organizers (the second-year to the fourth-year university students N = 65). The participants were 197 university students in total. The research instruments used for data collection were questionnaire and depth interview questions. For the questionnaire it can be divided into four parts: Part I concerning general information Part II and III related to types of welcoming activities and students’ attitudes towards the freshman welcoming activities organized in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon and Part IV providing suggestions. Thirty voluntary participants were asked to provide in-depth information about freshman welcoming activities organized the Faculty of Liberal Arts Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The data obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed by using descriptive statistics: frequency percentage means and standard deviation. The data obtained from the in-depth interview were transcribed and analyzed by using textual analysis. Most participants in this study were female university students whose age group was 19 years old. The participants filled in their answers from 1 to 5 that is 5 strongly agree 4 agree 3 neutral 2 disagree and 1 strongly disagree to report their attitudes towards the freshman welcoming activities organized in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The results of the study show that the participants highly agreed with the appropriateness and the types of freshman welcoming activities responding to the goals. The participants also added that they wanted to have a welcome feast (71.6%) followed by Baisri Sukwan welcome ceremony (64%) and booming activity for welcoming the new first-year university students (55.8%) respectively. The results of the study showed the participants ’awareness of security and willingness while taking part in the freshman welcoming activities. The students mostly agreed with positive effects of participating these kinds of activities: building relationship unity and responsibility. However they also moderately agreed that these activities could provide negative effectives: individual and organizational damage (for example losing publica image) According to the descriptive analysis and textual analysis the results showed that these university students were willing to take part in freshman welcome activities indicating that the activities were suitable supervised by related departments. They also suggested that there should be welcome activities based on their interests and suggestion box to achieve the goal. However one of the limitations of the study was the widespread of coronavirus resulting in the average score and standard deviation in some questionnaire items.

Ministry of Higher Education Science Research and Innovation has declared the policy towards university intiation with creative warm impressive and students’ improvement reinforcement. It is put into effect to every institute strictly. The research is a mixed-methods paradigm in order to evaluate the results of creative initiation by studying the perspectives on activities as well as the effects of creative initiation. Moreover setting the objectives and creative initiation indicators employing cost-benefit analysis are concerned. With simple random 362 undergraduate students of Faculty of Business Administration of Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakorn are the participants of this study. The study not only employs descriptive statistics —frequency percentage average and standard deviation— but also takes the focus group interview to collect data. To do so using purposive sampling to get 13-activity-staff as well as 12-activity-participant helps the researchers to analyze data in many dimensions: important issues and brainstorming for creating the next-time activities. The results found that 1. university students’ perceptions on activity was above average (good); such a type of activity was needed and related to the project’s objective 2. university students shared their opinions towards activity’s effects as followed: 1) positive effect is good; the activity caused unity responsibility and people and environment adaptation 2) negative effect is moderate; university students complied to do the activities but the activity’s processes should be improved. This was because various activities affected mental issues. According to previous activities’ cost-benefit analysis of Faculty of Business Administration they found that the cost of “Rak-Rua-Wang” project was the highest because there was high fixed-cost. On the other hand the project “Jit- Ar-Sa-Pha-Nong-Tham-Dee” had the least cost. To conclude internal rate of return modified internal rate of return and net present value of every project tended to increase continuously since university students in different majors involved in the activity increasingly.