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University of Dhaka

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University of Dhaka

ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়

Motto                                                                          সত্যের জয় সুনিশ্চিত

Motto in English                                                      Truth Shall Prevail

Type                                                                           Public                                                                   

Established                                                                 1921
Chancellor                                                                 Abdul Hamid
Vice-Chancellor                                                        Mohammad Aktaruzzaman

Academic staff                                                           2,156+

Administrative staff                                                  3,887

Students                                                                     30,015+
Undergraduate                                                          23,620+ 
Postgraduate                                                              5,362+(4)
Students                                                                      764+(4)

Other                                                                          269+(4)

Location   Dhaka, BangladeshUrban. 240 hetares (600 acres) (without the Institute of leather engineering andteach)

Website                                                                   du.ac.bd; univdhaka.edu          

           

The University of Dhaka 

Bengali : ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়  (Dhaka Bangladesh) also known as Dhaka University or simply DU), is the oldest university in modern Bangladesh. The university is ranked number one on the Bangladesh University Ranking 2017. (5) Established in 1921 during the British Raj, it has made significant contributions to the modern history of Bangladesh.{6}{7}{8}{9} After the partition of India, it became the focal point of Progressive and democratic movements in Pakistan. Its students and teachers played a central role in the rise of Bengali nationalism  and the Independence of Bangladesh.

The university's distinguished alumni include fazlur Rahman khan (pioneer of modern structural engineering), Muhammad Yunus (winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace prize,  pioneer of microcredit) Muhammad shahidullah (famous educator, philologist, and linguist) Natyagura Nural Momen (the pioneer trailblazer of progressive culture, theatre, literature, performing arts, philosophy and arts; who was both an early student & a teacher as well, of Dhaka University), Serajul islam choudury (the country's leading public intellectual and writer), rehman sobhan (social democratic economist), Mohammad ataul karim (physicist), Abul Fateh (one of the founding fathers of South Asian diplomacy), Buddhadeb Bose (20th-century Bengali poet), and sheikh Mujibur Rahman (the founding father of Bangladesh). It also enjoyed associations with Satyendra natha bose, Vijayaraghavan, and kazi nazrul islam

Today, it is the largest public university in Bangladesh, with a student body of 33,000 and a faculty of 1,800. It was identified by Asia Week as one of the top 100 universities in Asia.(11) However, since the 1990s, the university has suffered from intensely politicized, partisan, and violent campus politics promoted by Bangladesh's political parties