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The study aimed to investigate the concept of creative teaching as perceived by university teachers and find out some factors that impacted their perceptions comprising gender, academic title, and degree. Data were collected from 164 English language teachers from five different private universities in Thailand using a 5-point rating scale questionnaire and analyzed through t-tests and One-Way Analysis of Variance. The findings reveal that teachers’ creative teaching perceptions based on the six categories, namely, school environment, personal quality, personal motivation, teaching belief, education and career experience, and thinking style, were high. Regarding background information, the factor of academic title was found to have an impact on perceptions. Teachers with the academic title had higher perceptions of creative teaching than those without the academic title in all categories, and significant differences were found in overall perceptions and two categories: personal motivation and thinking style (p < .05). However, the other factors comprising gender and degree did not affect their perceptions. The findings can be useful for administrators in all private universities when creativity and creative teaching were implemented in the curriculum.