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Founded in 1998
14,622 Faculty Staff
15,000 Students
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Mae Fah Luang University, named in honour of HRH the Princess Mother, Srinagarindra, is a public autonomous university situated in Chiang Rai, serving as the Greater Mekong Subregion's hub of education. Operating since 1998 under the concept "New, Different, Better", MFU offers more than 70 cutting-edge and highly modern degree programmes, using English as the medium of instruction and serving more than 14,000 students from 25 countries.
Over two decades of development has led MFU to be recognized as Thailand's fastest growing higher educational institution. With a philosophy of "Develop people, cultivate knowledge, instils quality, uphold virtues", MFU strives for the utmost levels of success and accomplishment in its research and teaching. Utilizing the "New, Different, Better" concept, MFU offers an environment and culture highly conductive to living and learning, attracting numerous visitors from many countries annually. This has led to various forms of mutual cooperation and collaborations, and has encouraged the rapidly increasing number of international students.
MFU is a medium sized university of quality with international academic standards, pursuing excellence in both sciences and arts, with the aims of cultivating human resources for the nation as well as the GMS, accumulating and developing knowledge in various fields and technology, bringing newfound knowledge into practice, and restoring the national arts and culture. The programmes in MFU categorizes the academic schools into three clusters to carry out its teaching and research at various levels, which are:
1) Science and Technology Cluster including;
2) Health and Science Cluster including;
3) Humanities and Social Science Cluster including;
with over 70 programmes which conclude 8 joint degree programmes with the collaborating universities.