After moving to a new location at Lat Krabang near Suvarnabhumi Airport, the campus became King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang.

Part of the school moved to the Ladkrabang campus, and architecture, industrial education/science, and agricultural technology departments were established.

Besides this, as using the developed skills and facilities for the benefit of other developing countries, JICA has been active in supporting KMITL in organizing "third-country training" in information technology (started in 1978; presently known as the Japan-Thai Partnership Program, JTTP; having completed 11 programs with 13 courses established), dispatched KMITL professors to the engineering department of National University of Laos and supported KMITL's acceptance of research students from universities in Laos.

[citation needed] In 2017, Carnegie Mellon University set up a joint institute with KMITL with the support of the Office of the Higher Education Commission.

The I/UCRC in Data Storage Technology and Applications or iDSTA is formed under partnership between KMITL and NECTEC under the Thailand's Hard Disk Drive Competitiveness Enhancement Program.