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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mahidol University (MU) (Thai, pronounced: ma-hi-don) is a Top-Ranked Public University in Thailand. Organized in 1943 as University of Medical Sciences (Thai: ) in Bangkok, the university originally focused on Health Sciences but also expanded to other fields in recent decades. MU hosted the Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mahidol University (MU) (Thai, pronounced: ma-hi-don) is a Top-Ranked Public University in Thailand. Organized in 1943 as University of Medical Sciences (Thai: ) in Bangkok, the 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 its origin. Today, MU offers a wide range of graduate and undergraduate programs from natural sciences to liberal arts with campuses in urban and suburban Bangkok, 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: estimately $147 millions each year, most of the part has been granted for graduate research programs. The first Siamese medical school, the Rajapaethayalai (Thai: ), was founded under commissions of King Chulalongkorn in 1889 situated on the former Rear Palace or today's Bangkok Noi campus. The medical school underwent several name changes and went to join Chulalongkorn University organized by Vajiravudh's decree in 1917 as the Faculty of Medicine to Chulalongkorn University. However, the government of General Phibun then separated the Faculty of Medicine (then Siriraj Medical School), Departments of Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Veterinary Science from Chulalongkorn University and re-organized them into the University of Medical Sciences (Thai: ). The university was officially founded on February 7, 1943. The university experienced drastic growth. In 1959, the Medical Science Preparatory School (now Faculty of Science) was moved to Payathai - thus beginning the Payathai campus. During the 1960s the university focuse. More: Books, , Mahidol-University~~Books-Llc, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<