Formerly a university of Siriraj Hospital and founded by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) in 1888, after becoming the University of Health Sciences in 1943, it has been recognized as the country’s fourth public university.

The university has three campuses across Bangkok, the largest of which is Salaya, located in Nakhon Pathom. In addition, there are provincial campuses in Nakhon Sawan, Kanchanaburi and Amnaj Charoen provinces. The Salaya campus has the most research centres, along with student unions and student accommodation.

Mahidol is constructed of 17 faculties, 6 colleges, 9 research institutes and 6 campuses (3 provincial campuses) and offers a range of academic programs in three core academic areas; Health Sciences, Science & Technology and Social Sciences & Humanities.

The university directly runs 2 Faculties of Medicine which operate 5 hospitals and 1 Institute of Medicine affiliated to 4 hospitals (with Medical Education Centers for the Collaborative Project to Increase Production of Rural Doctor) as well as providing a location to train medical students for 2 other Colleges of Medicine. In total this produces around 850 medical doctors annually and serve as centers for comprehensive specialist medical training and patient care, with a total of around 4,250 beds serving nearly 4.4 million outpatients and 120,000 in-patients per year.

The Veterinary Faculty of the university is highly appreciated with the most recent ranking of 58 in the world, 4 in Asia and first in Thailand for the quality of teaching and learning by Edurank.

According to Wikipedia and edurank.org