University of Medicine, Magway was reputed to have the most economically, culturally and ethnically diverse student population as the Union University, , among all Burmese universities of medicine. But, when educational reforms are started under the New Regime, the numbers of fresher candidates is reduced to 99 (2012 December) and those fresher students are from Magway Region, Shan State(East), Rakhine State, Bago Region (West). The fresher students from Lower Myanmar are relocated to University of Medicine 2, Yangon, and those from Kachin State, Chin State and Sagaing Region are to University of Medicine Mandalay. University of Medicine, Magway, is one of five schools in
Bago Region trip from Yangon. The Shwegyin Dam is in the eastern part Bago Region. It is a long, wide and thick zone-type dam with a water storage capacity of 2,078,417 megalitres . The three concrete conduit pipes are in length, in width and in height each. The intake infrastructure is long, wide and high. The spillway is long, wide and high. Two compressed steel pipe lines at the dam are in diameter and in length each. The power plant is long, wide and high. It is equipped with four 18.75-MW Francis vertical shaft turbines. It can generate 262 million KW hours