Mahidol University Kanchanaburi Campus was is located at Sai Yok District, Kanchanaburi Province. Approval for its establishment was granted by the cabinet on June 20, 1995, with missions to extend the opportunity for higher education to regional sections as well as to use academic knowledge to help improve the quality of life of the communities in the area.
There was master plan enforcement during 1997-2017 plan to expand capacity for full 2,000 rai area (3,200,000 sq.m.), however, the university have been developed by unable to follow the master planning guideline in terms of land use, resource and budget management because of policies and education context altering.
To maintain the campus’s vision of being a leader in integrative education and academics relying on the basis of the resources found in the western ASEAN region. The 2017- 2027 Master Plan redevelopment aim for these following goals and objectives;
1. To develop area for community and commercial service zone relate to the western seaboard economics policy.
2. To review management policy and action plan relate to education policy of 21st century learning.
3. To use master plan for resource management more efficiency.
4. To consider suitable design guideline for land, service, infrastructure, building and environment management plan for regulate and enforce.

Development Approaches

1. Land use development by arranging and categorizing similar type of activities together for circulation flow. Also, increasing density of land use in education zone and decrease building footprint by limiting open space ratio at 70 percent of every zone. Together with dividing land in every zone as block system by limiting offset area, floor area ratio, function and accessibility. Moreover, new master plan has re-zoning and defining node in walkable distance and creating a space between building as activities space such as marketplace of ideas and co-learning space for sharing and exchange different experience and knowledge. Last, to connect university, community and public society for creating an entrepreneurial minded to students.

2. Landscape and Environment Development
The Kanchanaburi Campus is located at rock mountainside with forestry surroundings. Some part of campus area is burnt annually by forest fire. The master plan focuses on reforestation and revival the rich forests. Also creating an activities green area in campus as green network. Which it could define various type of landscape and environmental as following; conserved forest area, reforest area, garden recreation area, green open space area, shaded plaza and squares, agricultures area and, screen and buffer zone.

3. Use Eco-Friendly approaches in transportation system and organize distance between activities zone in walkability system.
4. Renewal energy by solar farm for utilize in campus.
5. Arrange infrastructure system for supporting storm water recycling management, waste management with zero discharge concept and forest fire protection plan.
6. Building and zoning restriction which limits height, set back and natural ventilation.