University of Chittagong
চট্টগ্রাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
Crest of University of Chittagong
Other name
Chittagong University
TypePublic, research
Established18 November 1966 (18 November 1966)
AccreditationAssociation of Commonwealth Universities
AffiliationUniversity Grants Commission
ChancellorPresident Mohammed Shahabuddin
Vice-ChancellorShireen Akhter[1]
Academic staff
907[2]
Administrative staff
311 (male 277, female 34)[2]
Students
  • 27,550
  • [male 18,000 (est.)]
  • [female 9,500 (est.)]
[2]
Location
Hathazari Upazila, Chittagong District, Bangladesh

22°28′12″N 91°47′25″E / 22.4699°N 91.7904°E / 22.4699; 91.7904
CampusRural, 2,312.32 acres (9.3576 km2)[2]
Websitecu.ac.bd

The University of Chittagong (also known as Chittagong University, abbreviated as CU; Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a public research university located in Hathazari, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Founded in 1966, it is one of the oldest university in Bangladesh. It is also known for providing quality education to its students. Its 2,312 acres (936 ha) campus is the largest among Bangladeshi universities.[3]

History

The Chittagong University is situated on 1,754 acres of beautiful hilly land in mauja Fatehpur under hathazari upazila, 22 km north of chittagong city. It was opened on 18 November 1966. Back in 1962, Mr. Mohammad Ferdaus Khan, Deputy Director of Public Instruction of East Pakistan, prepared a preliminary draft plan of Chittagong University. Prior to that the Chittagong University Movement Council was formed in 1961 with Badshah Mia Chowdhury, a distinguished social welfare worker of Chittagong, as president and professor Ahmad Hossain of Chittagong City College as convenor. Dr. muhammad shahidullah (1885-1969), Dr. muhammad enamul haq (1906-82) and some other intellectuals, educationists, political personalities, and social workers played leading roles in the site selection movement of 1962.

On 3 December 1965, Professor a r mallick (1918-97), as project Director, inaugurated the work of founding the Chittagong University with only three employees, one typewriter, and a photocopier in a house on Road 3 of Chittagong City's Nasirabad Housing Society. The Chittagong University Ordinance was promulgated on 25 September 1966 and Professor Mallick was given the charge of Vice Chancellor on that very day. He resumed charge as the first Vice Chancellor of the university on 9 October 1966.

The university started its academic programme on 28 November with classes of MA (Preliminary) programme with only 200 students in the departments of Bangla, English, History and Economics under the faculty of Arts. After a short while Medical, Engineering, Law and Education Colleges situated outside the university campus were incorporated as separate faculties, and thus the university's educational activities kept expanding.

Under Arts faculty, the departments of Bangla, History and English were established in 1966, that of Fine Arts in 1970, Philosophy in 1972, Islamic History and Culture, and Oriental Languages in 1974, Arabic and Persian Languages in 1977, and of Journalism in 1994. These departments have programmes of BA (Honours), MA (Preliminary), and MA (Final). Under Science faculty, the departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics were set up in 1968, Statistics in 1970, Zoology and Botany in 1973, Oceanography Institute in 1971, Institute of Forestry in 1976, and the Research Centre for Mathematical and Physical Sciences in 1989 opened by the Nobel Prize winner scientist Professor Abdus Salam. The departments under the Science faculty have programmes of B Sc (Hons), M Sc (preliminary) and M Sc (Final). The Social Science Faculty was founded in 1971. Under this faculty the departments of Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Public Administration and Anthropology started in 1966, 1968, 1970, 1980, and 1997 respectively. Departments under this faculty conduct BSS (Honours), MSS (Preliminary) and MSS (Final) programmes. The Commerce faculty was established in 1971. Departments of this faculty conduct BBA (Honours) and MBA programmes. The department of Law under the faculty of Law was established in 1992.

All the faculties publish a research journal of the common title The Chittagong University Studies (now renamed Chittagong University Journal) distinguished by the name of the individual faculty suffixed to it. Chittagong University Journal of Arts, Chittagong University Journal of Social Science, Chittagong University Journal of Business and Chittagong University Journal of Law come out once or twice a year.

Muhammad Shahidullah ( 10 July 1885 – 13 July 1969)[1] was a Bengali linguist, philologist, educationist, and writer.
Chittagong University, 1970.

Facilities

Library

Chittagong University Library

Chittagong University's collection of about 350,000 books, and over 40,000 bound journals is housed in a 56,700 square feet (5,270 m2) library built in 1990.[4]

Chittagong University Museum

Chittagong University Museum was established in 1973 with artifacts from the History Department including fossils found amongst the Nasirabad hills. It has subsequently accumulated an extensive collection of historical artifacts and painting. In 2016, The Daily Star donated a Chittagong history archive to the museum.[5][6][7]

University shuttle train

Faculty of Science

The university shuttle train is operated by Bangladesh Railway eastern division and monitored by university authority.[8] Trains leave Chattogram railway station and Sholoshohor railway station, and city-bound trains leave Chattogram University railway station.

Shuttle graffiti

Chittagong University shuttle train have a long history of graffiti art but there were allegations it was being used by rival political groups to assert influence over train compartments. After April 2011 clashes between five compartment-based gangs left at least eight students injured, the university expelled 11 students and banned all types of compartment-based organisational activities, including sticking posters, leaflets and graffiti on the trains.[9] Eleven years after that incident, German artist Lukas Zeilinger, accompanied by Livia, his wife, and Arup Barua, a teacher at the Department of Dramatics of the university, painted the carriages once again. The project was self-funded by the Zeiligers as part of their art project.[10][11]

Campus

Residential halls

As of 2022, there are 14 residential halls at the university of which 9 (1 under construction) are for male and 5 (1 under construction) for female students.[2][12]

List of vice chancellor

[12]

University of Chittagong vice chancellors[14]
A R Mallick 1966-1972
U N Siddiqui[lower-alpha 1] 1971-1972
M Innas Ali 1972-1973
Abul Fazal 1973-1975
Abdul Karim 1975-1981
M A Aziz Khan 1981-1985
Mohammad Ali 1985-1988
Alamgir Muhammad Serajuddin 1988-1991
Rafiqul Islam Chowdhury 1991-1996
Abdul Mannan 1996-2001
Fazle Hossain 2001-2002
A J M Nuruddin Chowdhury 2002-2006
Badiul Alam 2006-2009
Abu Yousuf 2009-2010
Alauddin[lower-alpha 1] 2010-2011
Anwarul Azim Arif 2011-2015[15]
Emran Hossain[lower-alpha 1] 2013-2013[16]
Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury 2015-2019
Shireen Akhter 2019- 
  1. 1 2 3 Acting

The Chittagong University Act 1973

The Chittagong University Act, 1973 ( ACT NO. XXXIII OF 1973 )

[ 4th October, 1973 ] An Act to repeal the Chittagong University Ordinance, 1966, and provide for reconstitution and reorganisation of the University of Chittagong.

The Chittagong University act

Notable people

Faculty

Alumni

Main entrance
Faculty of Biological Science
Teachers' dormitory

See also

References

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