วันที่ 1 ตุลาคม 2546 คณะอนุกรรมการสถาบันประจำมหาวิทยาลัย
(อ.ก.ม.) เห็นชอบให้จัดตั้ง คณะใหม่ คือคณะวิทยาการจัดการและสารสนเทศศาสตร์ (ชื่อเดิมของคณะบริหารธุรกิจ เศรษฐศาสตร์และการสื่อสาร) โดยแยกออกจากคณะมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์เดิม
Characteristics of cooperative education.
Cooperative education is a characteristic feature in itself as follows:
1. Education system enhances students ' readiness to work with the occupation (Professional Career) from academic and performing basic tasks (Basic Training) to certain their high capability of and to meet the needs of the labor market even more.
2. Cooperative education officials, instructors and supervisors in all establishments participating in support of student's practice.
3. The combination of knowledge and experiences of the actual working needs to coordinate closely between the people from the university and the establishment.
Naresuan University focuses on putting the format of teaching courses in order to obtain qualified graduates at the most establishment by setting 5 identities "good job, good identity good man thinks, good living even conquer a problem. In order to achieve these objectives, the University has defined a strategy for teaching course. As follows:
1. Adding a real experience to prepare the career skills by bringing the principles of cooperative education (Cooperative Education) used as the first of its time in Thailand.
2. The course is a combination of various aspects of academic subject matters together in a unity way (Multidisciplinary Approach)
Cooperative education is one tool that will enable students to get real work experience training by merging the essence of knowledge learned from the theory applied to be employees succeed. Full time Knowledge and skills received creates self development in all aspects for working in a career after graduation.