The Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) started as the Dar es Salaam medical school in 1963.  The school then transformed into the faculty of medicine of the University of Dar es Salaam that in 1991 was upgraded and became a college called the Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS).
In 1996, the Faculty of Medicine that was upgraded to a constituent College of the University of Dar es Salaam, with the aim of nurturing it to a full-fledged university later on was merged with the Muhimbili hospital to create the Muhimbili Medical Centre (MMC).