Located in Bangkok, Mahidol University is the highest ranked of all universities in Thailand, placed 40th in the Asia ranking and 283rd in the 2013/14 QS World University Rankings®. Established in 1888 as Thailand’s first medical school, Mahidol University is now a public research university with a particular emphasis on health sciences. The school receives the biggest research budget in the country, at around US$147 million annually.
Mahidol University’s current student population is just over 26,000 (16,500 undergraduates). Aside from the main campus in Bangkok, it has remote campuses in the provinces of Nakhon Sawan, Kanchanaburi and Amnat Charoen. In the QS World University Rankings by Subject, Mahidol University stands out in the medical fields for which it is best known, ranking within the world’s top 50 for pharmacy and top 150 for medicine.