Founded in 1957 and inaugurated in Rabat in 1959 by late King Mohammed V, the Mohammed V university ranks as the dean of modern universities in Morocco.
As a national leader in providing educational excellence to a large number of students, the university takes pride in being the home university of his Majesty Mohammed VI and some of the Royal Family. It has also trained many of the leaders of the Moroccan Government and graduates of different professions such as teachers, researchers, engineers, attorneys, managers… etc whose work reflects the level of excellence the university has always promoted for its students.
The university has an outstanding place amongst Moroccan universities given its particular role in fostering for years, and till 1975, many educational institutions in cities like Fès, Tétouan, Tangier, Kénitra and Casablanca which have now independent universities.
In 1993 the University grew in two separate campuses : Mohammed V University –Agdal and Mohammed V university-Souissi.

The UM5A capitalizes on its faculty and its administrative and technical staff who have made tremendous efforts implementing the LMD reform since 2003. They have conducted this reform on the basis of the university priorities and shared values :
- Being committed to offer to its students and partners a diversified bundle of quality study programs many of them with professionalisation
- Aspiring to maintain a quality assurance that meets standards and best practices found in major universities throughout the world.
- Helping students to develop their capacities to their highest potential.
- Consolidating the international exchange by developing relationships and partnerships with other foreign universities
- Increasing the number of actions that meet the needs of its socio-economic environment
- Embracing new technologies to advance the creative potentials of its faculty, administrative staff and students and promoting innovative and responsible uses of technology for the realization of a modern University.