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Welcome to the campus of glory...
University of Chittagong is a public research university with
multidisciplinary
faculties.It has about 24,000 students and more than 1000 faculty members.
University of Chittagong situated across a 2110-acre hilly landmass in Fatehpur Union of Hathazari Upazila, 22 kilometres north of Chittagong city of Bangladesh. This university has the largest campus among Bangladeshi universities around 2100 acres of hilly and flat land.
The Chittagong University Library is situated on the university campus,has been housed in its own building of 56,700 square feet.The library is managed by a 14-member Library Committee.The library collection consists of about 350,000 books and over 40,000 bound journals.
The Chittagong University Museum was established on 14 June 1973. The museum started with a collection of artifacts from the History Department. It collected fossils from Nasirabad hills. The museum build up a collection of historical artifacts and painting.
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Our members achieved the prestigious Nobel Prize, Ekushe-Padak, Bangla Academy Award and other notable national and international awards.
Mohammad Yunus, a former student of University of Chittagong, is a Nobel laureate. He was awarded Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance...
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From the beginning of the 20th century the enlightened section of local people was pressing to set up a university in Chittagong. Necessary grants for the construction of Chittagong University were allocated on 9 March 1964 in the meeting of National Economic Council.
Professor of History, University of Rajshahi and Ex-Curator of Varendra Research Museum Dr Azizur Rahman Mallick was made the Project Director of Chittagong University on 3 December 1965. He set up the project office of the university at
From the beginning of the 20th century the enlightened section of local people was pressing to set up a university in Chittagong. Necessary grants for the construction of Chittagong University were allocated on 9 March 1964 in the meeting of National Economic Council.
Professor of History, University of Rajshahi and Ex-Curator of Varendra Research Museum Dr Azizur Rahman Mallick was made the Project Director of Chittagong University on 3 December 1965. He set up the project office of the university at a building 'Kahkashan' on road no 3, Nasirabad Housing Society, Chittagong. All the officers and staffs of the university wing, Department of Education were transferred to the Chittagong University Project office through a gazette notification issued on 14 December 1965. A master plan of the university was prepared through 'Bastukala', an organisation led by Architect Mazharul Islam. Initially a two-storeyed administrative building, departmental offices, classrooms and a library building were built. Student hostels and a teachers' dormitory were also constructed in the first phase.
Dr. Azizur Rahman Mallick was appointed as the first Vice Chancellor of Chittagong University through the Chittagong University Ordinance promulgated on 25 September 1966. The classes of M A (preliminary) of Bangla, English, History and Economics departments under the Faculty of Arts began first from 18 November 1966 with only 200 students and seven teachers. Dr. Abdul Karim joined as the Reader and head of the Department of History while Mohammad Ali and Dr. Shafiul Alam were appointed as Reader and Head of the Departments of English and Economics respectively. Abul Kalam Manzor Morshed joined as a Senior Lecturer in Bangla. Professor Syed Ali Ahsan was the first full professor of Chittagong University....(source wikipedia)
Faculty of Arts and Humanities :
1) Department of English 2) Department of Bangladesh Studies 3) Department of Bangla 4) Department of Dramatics 5) Department of Sanskrit 6) Department of Arabic 7) Department of Islamic History and Culture 8) Department of Islamic Studies 9) Department of History 10) Department of Philosophy 11) Department of Pali 12) Department of Persian Language & Literature 13) Department of MusicFaculty of Biological Sciences :
1) Department of Botany 2) Department of Zoology 3) Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 4) Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 5) Department of Pharmacy 6) Department of Geography and Environmental Studies 7) Department of Psychology 8) Department of Microbiology 9) Department of Soil ScienceFaculty of Science:
1) Department of Physics 2) Department of Chemistry 3) Department of Mathematics 4) Department of Statistics 5) Department of Applied Chemistry & Chemical EngineeringFaculty of Marine Science and Fisheries :
1) Department of Oceanography 2) Department of FisheriesFaculty of Engineering :
1) Department of Computer Science and Engineering 2) Department of Electrical and Electronic EngineeringFaculty of Social Sciences :
1) Department of Public Administration 2) Department of Political Science 3) Department of Economics 4) Department of Sociology 5) Department of Development Studies 6) Department of Communication and Journalism 7) Department of International Relations 8) Department of Criminology and Police Science 9) Department of AnthropologyFaculty of Law :
1) Department of LawFaculty of Business Administration :
1) Department of Accounting 2) Department of Finance 3) Department of Banking and Insurance 4) Department of Management 5) Department of Marketing 6) Department of Human Resource Management 7) Chittagong University Center for Business AdministrationFaculty of Education :
1) Department of Physical Education and Sports ScienceInstitutes :
Institute of Marine Sciences Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences Institute of Fine Arts Institute of Modern Languages Social Science Research Institute Institute of Education And Research Bureau of Business Research Center for Asian Studies
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. The Chittagong University Journal of Science, The Chittagong University Journal of Arts and Humanities, The Chittagong University Journal of Social Science, The Chittagong University Journal of Business Administration and The Chittagong University Journal of Law come out once or twice a year.
All of our internal faculties of the university brings out separate research journal annually which publishes standard research or creative articles based on favourable recommendations of at least two experts for each paper nominated by the editorial board of the concerned journal. There is a publication cell consisting of senior faculty members which can recommend the publication of standard textbooks or higher degree research dissertations. The university allocates fund to the Research Centre, Nazrul Research Centre and Bureau of Business Research to initiate small research projects to be done by the teachers. Over the years, the faculty members of this university have earned reputation by publishing a lot of research papers in the national and international journals. Some of them have also completed a large number of research monographs in their respective branches of knowledge and possess, to their credit, invaluable experiences of working as national experts.