ABOUT JAGANNATH UNIVERSITY

                   

ABOUT JAGANNATH UNIVERSITY

                                            History / Administration / Faculties

HISTORY OF JAGONNATH  UNIVERSITY

jagannath University is situated in the southern part of the city of Dhaka near the Buriganga. This prestigious  educational establishment has a history of about 150 years which started in 1858 when Dhaka Brahma School was founded in 1858 by Dinanath Sen, Prabhaticharan Roy, Anathbandhu Mallik and Brajasundar Kaitra. The name Jagannath school was given by Kishorilal Chowdhury, the Zamindar of Baliadi who took over the school in 1872 and renamed it after his father's name. In 1884college. A common management committee administered the school and college until 1887, when the school section was separated to form an independent school named Kishore Jubilee School. It is now known as K L Ju, it was raised to a second grade college. Law was one of the first courses introduced in the bilee School.   It became a first grade Jagannath College opened honours and masters programmes in 1975. That year thecollege1907.The college started Jagannath College opened honours and masters programmes in 1975.                                

. That year the government once again took over the college and upgraded it into a postgraduate college.

The college was transformed into the Jagannath University in 2005. At present the University has 22 departments under 4 faculties. The faculties are Science, Arts, Business Studies and Social Science. Now 271 teachers are engaged in providing quality education of around 27000 students. on diverse areas.

The teachers and students of the college took active part in the Language Movement of the early 1950s, the mass movements of the 1960s and the War of Liberation of the country in 1971. The college produced tens of thousands graduates. Many of them have become famous at home and abroad. Noted among the alumni of the college are sufi motahar hosen (poet), Abdul Hamid (sports organiser and sports journalist), Bhabatosh Dutta (economist), Premendra Mitra (writer and poet), AR Yusuf (Bar-at-Law, State Minister of Bangladesh in early 1980s), A KMA Rouf (artist), Anisuzzaman (educationist, researcher), and Brozen Das (swimmer, the first Indian to swim across English Channel).

The Management of University is striving to make this establishment as a center of excellence for creating successful and  productive.

Faculties

 There four faculties in this university.

 These are eight depetment in this university

Faculty of Arts

Department of Bengali

Department of English

Department of Philosophy

Department of General History

Department of Islamic History & Culture

Department of Islamic Studies

Department of Law

Department of Anthropology

Faculty of Social Science

There are five departments in this university:

Department of Economics

Department of Political Science

Department of Sociology

Department of Social Work

Departmant of Journalism

Faculty of Science

This faculty has eight departments. The departments of this faculty are

Department of Physics

Department of Chemistry

Department of Mathematics

Department of Statistics

Department of Botany

Department of Zoology

Department of Geography & Environment

Department of Psychology

Department of Pharmacy

Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Department of Computer Science and Engineering    

Faculty of Business Studies

This faculty is consist of four department. those are-

Department of Management: Management department is the leading dept of the faculty. From 2005 to present  four batches has been studying here. Each batch consists of 200 students.

Department of Accounting and Information System: Each batch consists of 200 students

Department of Marketing: Each batch consists of 100 students

Department of Finance: Each batch consists of 100 students

There are 600 sitting for every session. Of them 400 for Management and Accounting, another 200 for Marketing and Finance. Student get 132 credit hour to complete the full course. There are eight semester and they have to complete those in four year. The dean of this faculty is Md. Abul Klam. He is also the chairman of the management dept.

The university starts its BBA program in 2005. In past this university was under NU. Still now here are student of Honour's degree. Recently the MBA program has started in all four departments of Business Studies faculty.

                          

                                                                     

Administration of jagannath university

Chancellor

 Md. Zillur Rahman

 Honorable President,

 The People's Republic of Bangladesh

 Vice Chancellor

 Prof. Dr. Mesbahuddin Ahmed

 M.Sc. (Dac) Ph.D (Kent)

 Treasurer

 Prof. Dr. Md. sawkat jahangir