Mahidol University

Mahidol University is a public research university in Bangkok,Thailand . It was established in 1888 as School of Medical Practitioners,Siriraj Hospital.(now Sirirsj Medical School)and reorgaanized in 1943 as university originally focused on Health Sciences,but also expanded to other fields in recent decades. MU hosted the first medical school of Thailand , the Siriraj Medical School, from which the university traced the origin . Today MU offers a range of gradduate (mostly international) and undergraduate programs from natural sciences to liberal arts with remote campuses in kanchanaburi, Nakhon Sawan , and Amnat charoen provinces. In terms of fiscal budget and portion of budget spent on research programs. MU  receives the highest budget of any public university. about $147 million each year, most of which is granted for graduate research programs. Mahidol university has been ranked Thailand's No.1 university in 2011 by QS Asian University Rankings. In 2015, Mahidol University was ranked as one of the world's Top 100 universities at which to study medicine ,according to the QS World University Rankings.


 Academic Infrastructure:

  MU is constructed of 17 faculties ,6 colleges, 8 research institutes and 7 centers and offers a range of academic programs in 3 core academic areas. Health Science,Science and Technology and Social Science and Humanity. In 2008, MU offered 506 academic programs for undergraduate and graduated  studies, 143 programs of which were international. Over 70 centers and laboratories for specialized research fields provide new ground by using interdisciplinary and inter-institutional approach to research and postgraduate training to meet the present and future needs of government and industry. The Mahidol University Applied and Technological Service center provides knowledge-based services to both public and private sectors and also promote and support respect.
2 faculties of Medicine,2 colleges of  Medicine, 4 Teaching Hospital (Medical Education Centers, Collaborative Project to increase Production of Rural Doctor) which   produce around 1000 medical doctors annually and serve as centers for comprehensive specialist medical training and patient care,with a total of around 4000 beds serving nearly 4.11 million out patients and 120000 in patients per year.

The Bangkok School of Tropical Medicine, the educational arm of the faculty of Tropical Medicine,
offers regular postgraduate programs, from graduate diploma to doctoral levels. The School is acknowledged and approved by the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygieneto the one of the eight schools in the world in which the student can get a diploma in tropical medicine.In addition, it is the only one school in which the student can learn about tropical diseases in the tropics.A dental service unit at the faculty of Dentistry and the Golden Jubilee Medical Center at Salaya Serving about 340000 patients a year.