Who we are

MU strives to be a leader on sustainability

Vision

Mahidol University strives to be the leader of sustainable development

Mission

Mahidol University commits to the operate and achieve sustainable development goals in terms of research and innovation, education, and community participation and brings future sustainability.

Strategic matters

Mahidol University strives on educating and sustainable development principles to create attitude among its staff and students to be the leaders of society changes, sustainably.

Mahidol University participates in solving challenging issues both nationally and internationally, as well as complex sustainability-related issues, while supporting sustainability in all processes of research.

Mahidol University implants sustainable management concepts to create continuous development

Mahidol University creates the culture of balanced happiness and sustainability in all fields available in the university while creating a good society for everyone.

Mahidol University has set 4 key strategies to drive sustainability as follows.

Research and Innovation for sustainability

With expertise, research and innovation could help cross-disciplinary integrated research and innovation that aims on sustainable development and creating new types of businesses.

Education for sustainability

The idea of sustainable development is infiltrated into all of the compulsory and elective curricula, while the sustainability concept and real-life experiment are integrated in classes.

Community and Social engagement for sustainability

This strategy focuses on expanding network outside the campus by participating with other organizations in many forms to transfer knowledge to communities and society and to promote sustainable university, as well as build manpower ability to meet the needs of the nation.

Operations for sustainability

This strategy could be achieved by creating well-structured, transparent, auditable, and environmental-friendly management system while implementing the concept of sustainability in to all management processes of the university.

Moreover, the university has set goals and strived for sustainable development very clearly by implementing policies and operations focusing on sustainable growth of the organization along with sustainable resources usage and social development, through creating awareness and learning in behavioral changes of students and staff, to be good example for the society, bringing happiness to humanity, for true sustainable development.

By participating UI GreenMetric World University Rankings, created by University of Indonesia, a member of the International Ranking Expert Group (IREG), Mahidol University has elevated the sustainable development since 2010, passing surveys of university operations related to Green Campus and sustainable development by joining the ranking since 2010 to the present. The university also participates in Times Higher Education (THE), the English global university ranking organization, the first organization with data rankings to measure the success of universities around the globe regarding operations to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations in Thailand which is agreed to use as development framework by the international community, aiming to solve present global issues such as poverty, inequality, global warming, and peace, to support the “no one is left behind” idea. Since joining in 2019, it is expected to be successful by 2030.