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Jagannath University

History

Jagannath University is positioned in the southern part of the Dhaka city near the river Buriganga. This educational organization has a history of about 150 years that started imparting knowledge 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 Baliati in Tangail, who took over the school in 1872 and renamed it subsequent to his father's name. In 1884, it was raised to a next grade college. Law was one of the first courses introduced in this college. A general management committee administer the school and college until 1887, when the school section was alienated to form an independent school named Kishore Jubilee School. It is now known as K L Jubilee School. The administration of the college was transfer to a board of trustees in 1907. In the next year, it became a first ranking college.

The college started with only 48 students and in five years, the roll raised to 396. In 1910, Raja Manmath Roy Chowdhury, the zamindar of Santosh, tangail affiliated the Pramath-Manmath College of Tangail with Jagannath College.It was known as the best prepared personal college in Dhaka as early on as 1910. With the organization of Dhaka University in 1921 the college had to stop admission in Degree courses and was renamed Jagannath Intermediate College. This status was changed after 28 years in 1949, when it reopened Degree classes. The college was taken more by the government in 1968.

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. In 1982, the college closed its programmes of intermediary level.The college introduce evening shifts in 1992.The college was transformed into the Jagannath University in 2005 by passing a bill named 'Jagannath University Act-2005" in the national assembly. At present, the University has 28 departments under 4 faculties. The faculties are Science, Arts, Business Studies and Social Science. Now 359 teachers are free in providing quality education of around 25000 students on various area.

The teachers and students of the college took full of life 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 formed tens of thousands graduates. Many of them have grow to be famous at home and overseas. Noted amongst the alumni of the college are Sufi Motahar Hosen (poet), Abdul Hamid^{[disambiguation needed]} (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 Brojen Das (swimmer, the first Indian to swim across English Channel).

The leadership of University is go-getting to make this organization as a middle of excellence for creating dynamic and responsible general public of Bangladesh.^{[3][dead link]}

Academics

At the present the University has 28 departments under 4 faculties. Every department of this university follow semester system.Now 359 teachers are engaged in provided that quality education of about 25000 students in sundry field.

There are four faculties in this university. These are:

Faculty of Arts

This faculty has seven departments.

• Department of Bangla [Dr. Chanchal Kumar Bosh , Chairman]
• Department of English [Professor Dr. M. Shahinoor Rahman, Chairman]
• Department of History[Prof. Dr. Shamsur Nahar, Chairman]

• Department of Philosophy
• Department of Islamic History & Culture
• Department of Islamic Studies
• Department of Law

Faculty of Social Science

There are seven departments in this faculty:

• Department of Economics [Dr. Md. Azam Khan, Chairman]
• Department of Political Science
• Department of Sociology
• Department of Social Work
• Department of Mass Communication & Journalism [Professor Dr. Helena Ferdousi (Chairperson)]
• Department of Social Welfare
• Department of Anthropology [Shanzida Farhana, Associate Professor & Chairman]

Faculty of Science

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

• Department of Mathematics [Dr. Payer Ahmed , Chairman]
• Department of Chemistry [Prof. Dr. Md. Shahjahan (Doggy), Chairman]
• Department of Physics [Prof.Dr. Md. Kamrul Alam]
• Department of Statistics [Prof. Md. Ashraf-Ul-Alam, Professor & Chairman]
• Department of Botany [Prof. Dr. Hasna Hena Begum , Dean, Science Faculty & Chairman]
• Department of Zoology [DR. MD. 8AIFUL ISLAM, Associate Professor and Chairman]
• Department of Geography & Environment [Md.Moniruzzaman, Assistant Professor & Chairman]
• Department of Psychology [Dr. Kazi Saifuddin, Chairman]
• Department of Pharmacy [Dr. A. Z. M. Ruhul Momen, Professor and Chairman]
• Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology[Dr. Zakaria Mia (Chairman), Dr. Laisa Ahmed Lisa (Associate Profesor)]
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering [Uzzal Kumar Acharjee (Chairman), Md. Abu Layek (Lecturer), Md. Arafat Hossain Khan]

Faculty of Business Studies

The faculty of business was introduced in the 2005-2006 academic session and started performance with two departments- accounting and management which were renamed as Department of accounting and information system and management studies in the year 2010. Two other departments, namely Finance and marketing were set up with a view to prepare students with expert knowledge for positions in government, business and academia. Since the inception the faculty of business continuation its steady commitment to first rate teaching quality and teaching staffs. The faculty offers regulate, and post graduate programs with a clear philosophy to expand in students the requisite knowledge and sympathetic of hypothetical concepts and realistic techniques for professional.

This faculty has four departments. The departments are in the following:

• Department of Marketing [Prof. Md. Zakir Hossain, Chairman]
• Department of Finance [Prof. Dr. Abu Misir, Chairman]
• Department of Management Studies[Prof. Dr. Md. Monuruzzaman, Chairman]
• Department of Accounting Information Systems [Dr. Ali Noor, Chairman]