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.

This research aims to study the need to open Master’s Degree Faculty of Liberal Arts Rajmangala University of Tehnology Phranakorn and to advise the management of Master’s Degree Program. This study applied a mixed method (a quantitative and qualitative research design). Data were collected by questionnaires and interviewed questions from two groups of participants. The first group comes from 300 participants who graduated in Social Science field interested people and Master’s Degree in Faculty of Liberal Arts stakeholders. The other is from 18 participants who are lecturers knowledgeable and skilled people in English Literacy and from Tourism and Hotel Business sectors. It was found that: 1. All participants preferred Independent Studies which study 30 credits in compulsory and elected subjects and 6 credits in independent study subject to Research Program. Participants in Tourism Major credited on in class lecture procedure and preferred single major program while participants in Hotel and English Major chose outside university and international lecturers and integrated subjects program. 2. Participants in Tourism preferred such curriculum structure 12/6 credits of Thesis or IS 21 credits of Compulsory Subject and 3/9 credits of Elected Subject. Participants in Hotel and Tourism Major agreed to have paper examination to enter to the degree rather than other processes and chose twilight course to study however participants in English Major preferred considering candidate experiences and supported to study on the weekends. 3. Participants in Tourism admired the whole course payment while the others preferred scholarship for conducting the research. When asking about advantages of the programs participants from the interview agreed that they are essential in improving work lives. The researchers also found that the number and the qualification of lecturers responsible for each program are not suitable to open the degree. They have to be merged such as Tourism and Hotel.