Mahidol University

Overview

Mahidol University

Mahidol University is an autonomous research university with campuses in different parts of Thailand. It was first founded as the Siriraj Hospital in 1888 by King Chulalongkorn and was renamed University of Medical Sciences in 1943. In honor of Prince Mahidol of Songkla, the university was officially renamed Mahidol University in 1969. Currently, Mahidol is one of the most prestigious universities in the country.

Mahidol University Key Statistics

The academic structure of Mahidol University is composed of 17 faculties and six colleges such as the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, the College of Management, and the Faculty of Engineering. It offers a wide range of academic programs centered in three core disciplines which are health sciences, science and technology, and social sciences and humanities.

Mahidol University has a student population of over 30,000, among whom are more than 20,000 undergraduates, nearly 7,000 postgraduates, and over 2,100 doctoral candidates. It also employs more than 3,400 academic staff which include 161 full professors. The students and faculty staff enjoy the vast space provided by the university with its several campuses including one suburban campus and two older inner-city campuses in Bangkok, as well as three other provincial campuses near the city capital.

Other Mahidol University key statistics include a library that holds a vast collection of materials including 70 printed journals, 40,302 e-journals, and 325,689 e-books. Moreover, it houses a medical plant garden called the Sireeruckhachati Nature Learning Park and the Golden Jubilee Medical Center which serves close to 340,000 patients a year.

Mahidol University Research

Mahidol University receives the highest budget among all of the public universities in Thailand. In 2019, the university was granted $430 million and a majority of which went straight to graduate research programs. Research at the university has also been recognized by various institutions around the world, taking home 12 international and 63 national awards.

The high-quality output produced by the university has made notable contributions in research topics like medicine, biology, and Malaria. Moreover, its researchers are regular attendees of a wide variety of conferences and symposia such as BIBM: Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, TENCON: IEEE Region 10 Conference, and ECTI-CON: International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications, and Information Technology.

The most cited Mahidol University research publication is Bousquet et al.'s (2012) "Allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma (ARIA): Achievements in 10 years and future needs." It has received 7,733 citations from different scholars around the globe and is published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Their second most cited work is Rehm et al.'s (2009) "Global burden of disease and injury and economic cost attributable to alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders." It was published in The Lancet and has 3826 citations to date. In addition, Snow et al.’s (2005) “The global distribution of clinical episodes of Plasmodium falciparum malaria” is their third most cited research paper with 3,618 citations and is published in Nature.

The university also has a number of research centers and institutes such as the Institute of Molecular Biosciences, the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, and the Institute for Population and Social Research.