University of Mawlamyaing

Mawlamyaing University (also the University of Mawlamyaing; ), located in Mawlamyaing, is the largest university in Mon State

Mon State

Mon State is an administrative division of Myanmar. It is sandwiched between Kayin State on the east, the Andaman Sea on the west, Bago Division on the north and Tanintharyi Division on the south, and has a short border with Thailand's Kanchanaburi Province at its south-eastern tip. The land area...

, Myanmar

Myanmar

Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia or Indochina. The country is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest and the Bay of Bengal to the...

. The university offers bachelor's and master's degree programs in liberal arts

Liberal arts

Liberal arts are the skills derived from the Classical education curriculum.-Definition:The term liberal arts denotes a curriculum that imparts general knowledge and develops the student’s rational thought and intellectual capabilities, unlike the professional, vocational, technical curricula...

 and sciences. It is one of the few universities in the country to offer a specialization in marine science in the country.

The university was founded in 1953 as Mawlamyaing Intermediate College under Yangon University.

Mawlamyaing University (also the University of Mawlamyaing; ), located in Mawlamyaing, is the largest university in Mon State

Mon State

Mon State is an administrative division of Myanmar. It is sandwiched between Kayin State on the east, the Andaman Sea on the west, Bago Division on the north and Tanintharyi Division on the south, and has a short border with Thailand's Kanchanaburi Province at its south-eastern tip. The land area...

, Myanmar

Myanmar

Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia or Indochina. The country is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest and the Bay of Bengal to the...

. The university offers bachelor's and master's degree programs in liberal arts

Liberal arts

Liberal arts are the skills derived from the Classical education curriculum.-Definition:The term liberal arts denotes a curriculum that imparts general knowledge and develops the student’s rational thought and intellectual capabilities, unlike the professional, vocational, technical curricula...

 and sciences. It is one of the few universities in the country to offer a specialization in marine science in the country.

History

The university was founded in 1953 as Mawlamyaing Intermediate College under Yangon University. It was renamed Mawlamyaing Degree College in 1964. It became an independent university in 1986.

Programs

Classified as an Arts and Science university in the Burmese university education system, Mawlamyaing University offers bachelor's and master's degree programs in in common liberal arts and sciences disciplines. Its regular Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....

 (BA) and Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years ....

 (BSc) take three years to complete and honors degree programs BA (Hons) and BSc (Hons) take four years. The law program also takes four years.

Mawlamyaing University is one of few universities in Myanmar, offering a degree in Marine Science. Its Marine Science Laboratory in Setse, a coastal town about 60 km south of Mawlamyaing was the first of its kind in Myanmar.

Program	Bachelor's	Master's	Doctorate
Burmese Burmese language The Burmese language is the official language of Burma. Although the constitution officially recognizes it as the Myanmar language, most continue to refer to the language as Burmese. It is the native language of the Bamar and other related sub-ethnic groups of the Bamar...	BA	MA
English English language English is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...	BA	MA
Geography Geography Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...	BA	MA
History History History is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...	BA	MA
Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on reasoned...	BA	MA
Psychology Psychology Psychology is an academic and applied discipline involving the systematic, and sometimes scientific, study of human or animal mental functions and behavior...	BA	MA
Botany Botany Botany, plant science, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the scientific study of plant life and development...	BSc	MSc
Chemistry Chemistry Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, behavior, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions...	BSc	MSc
Marine Science	BSc
Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics is the science and study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions....	BSc	MSc
Physics Physics Physics is a natural science; it is the study of matter and its motion through spacetime and all that derives from these, such as energy and force...	BSc	MSc
Zoology Zoology Zoology, also spelled zoölogy, is the branch of biology that focuses on the structure, function, behavior, and evolution of animals. The zoologist's pronunciation of "zoology" is , though a common spelling pronunciation is .-Systems of classification:...	BSc	MSc

List of rectors

• Dr. Khin Maung Tint (Tekkatho Phone Naing
  Tekkatho Phone Naing
  Tekkatho Phone Naing was a famous Burmese writer, primarily known for lovelorn stories that were most popular in the 1950s to 1970s. His "sad" stories still represent some of the best popular Burmese story writing in the postwar era....
  
  )
• Hla Tun Aung
• Kyi Win
• San Tint

Library

The university's three-story library, completed in January 2004, houses over 106,000 books and periodicals.

Alumni

Noted writer Dr. Mehm Tin Mon was a Professor of Chemistry at the university from 1986 to 1992.