THE UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG situated hathazari thana, 22km far from CHITTAGONG CITY. The university was established in 1966. The University of Chittagong is surrounded by hills, and is bisected by a small stream.
HISTORY & BACKGROUND:
University of Chittagong situated on 1,330 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 assumed 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.
In addition to the faculties of Arts, Science, Social Science, Commerce and Law, Chittagong University has a Medical Faculty that comprises two Medical Colleges: Chittagong Medical College and Sythet MAG Osmany Medical College, which offer MBBS graduate and postgraduate Diploma programmes. The Institute of Community Ophthalmology came into being in 1992-93.
Different faculties of Chittagong University arrange for coursework and examination on behalf of several other bodies and institutions such as bangladesh military academy (Bhatiari), Bangladesh Marine Academy (Patenga), Bangladesh Forestry College (Sholoshahar), College of Fine Arts, and Naval Academy (Patenga).
The first regular Convocation of Chittagong University was held in 1994. Before that a special Convocation had been held in 1981. In that Convocation physicist Abdus Salam was awarded an honorary D Sc degree. A special Professor’s Chair has been created in Chittagong University after the name of poet kazi nazrul islam.
CHITTAGONG UNIVERSITY LIBRARY:
The Chittagong University Library is the largest library in Chittagong. The number of books in this library is over two hundred thousand and it keeps six hundred periodicals.
Degrees offered:
The university offers 4 Year Bachelor of Science (Honours) (B.Sc.), 1 Year Masters of Science (M.Sc.), both thesis and course work based, under the faculty of Science. The medium of instruction here in this university is English Except for departments such as Bengali, Arabic and stuff like that ENGLISH. Also, Post Graduate Degrees (PGD) in Computer Science and Information Technology are offered.
It offers 4 Year Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and 1 Year Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degrees under the faculty of Business Administration, 4 Year Bachelor of Social Science (BSS) and 1 Year Masters of Social Science (MSS) degrees under the Faculty of Social Science, 4 Year Bachelor of Arts (BA) and 1 Year Masters of Arts (MA) degrees under the faculty of Arts, 4 Year LLB and 1 Year LLM degree under the Faculty of Law. Chittagong University is the pioneer to offer 4 year BBA, BSc(Hons) in Forestry, Environmental Sciences, and Marine Science in Bangladesh. The university also offers 2 Year MS, 2 Year MPhil and 3 Year PhD degree by research.FACULTIES & DEPARTMENTS:
With a modest beginning of 4 departments in 1966, the University of Chittagong has grown to 8 individual faculties, 35 departments, 3 institutes and 3 research centres. It has 3 affiliated Medical colleges under the Faculty of Medicine and 1 Veterinary Medicine College under the faculty of Veterinary Medicine. The veterinary medical college has recently been upgraded into a separate University. As such the number of faculties at present is 7. Current student enrollment is more than 19,000. Following is a list of faculties and the related departments.
- Faculty of Science
- Department of Applied Physics, Electronics & Communication Engineering
- department of computer science & engineering
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Physics
- Department of marine & fisheries
- Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences
- Research Centre for Mathematics and Physical Sciences (RCMPS)
- Faculty of Biological Sciences
- Department of Botany
- Department of Zoology
- Department of Microbiology
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Department of Geography and Environmental Science
- Department of Soil Science
- Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
- Department of Psychology
- Faculty of Arts
- Department of Bengali
- Department of English
- Department of History
- Department of Islamic History and Culture
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Fine Arts
- Department of Arabic
- Department of Oriental Languages
- Department of Islamic Studies and Culture
- Department of Communication and Journalism
- Nazrul Research Center
- Faculty of Social Science
- Department of Public Administration
- Department of Economics
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Sociology
- Department of Anthropology
- Department of International Relations (IR)
- Department of Home Economics
- Institute of Development Studies
- Faculty of Business Administration
- Department of Accounting and Information System
- Department of Management Studies
- Department of Marketing studies and International Marketing(MSIM)
- Department of Finance and Banking
- Bureau of Business Research
- Faculty of Law
- Department of Law
- Faculty of Medicine
- Comilla Medical College
- chittagong medical college
- Other affiliated colleges
- Chittagong Home Economics College
- Begumgong textile engeering college
- Chittagong University Laboratory School and College
SHUTTLE TRAIN:
The students of Chittagong University have to go to their university with two shuttle trains. This university is situated in a remote place that is only 21 km far from the portcity Chittagong. The are no 'university provided' transport for the students except the shuttle train.
The two shuttle trains are the main transport to the varsity which is always proved as not sufficient for students. Limited compartments lead students to the roof. But, new students are not accustomed with rooftop journey as it is not easy to go roof stepping on little clamps. They make their room on two tiny walkways on both sides of locomotive.
HANGING BRIDGE:
A hanging bridge beside the social science faculty. its linked SOCIAL SCIENCE FACULTY with abdur rab hall, register building road. TOURISTS whose visit chittagong university they must be visit this bridge.
FORESTRY AREA:
BOTANICAL GARDEN:
ITS very natural , forestry area.HILLY SMALL STREAM:
A small stream behind the arts faculty; its very minimum flow but looks like very beautiful.
huge students visit everyday this stream.
Just 22 kl north to the city Chittagong University Chittagong University Chittagong Bangladesh
Address: Zobra village, Hathajari upajila, 22 kilometer from 
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