By 1943, it began to seem irrational to permit the further proliferation
of highly specialized agricultural training schools, and, so a consolidated
university of Agriculture was established as a department in
the Ministry of Agriculture. The university consisted of several faculties, each corresponding to a program department in the Ministry. Other
faculties were later created to serve the needs of the departments of
Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Rice. The result was a composite
structure in which, although students and teaching facilities were all
brought together on a single campus (Bang Kaen, just north of Bangkok),
administratively each faculty behaved to a considerable degree as though
it were an administrative division of one of the program departments.