Jagannath University

The university has a history that started in 1858 when Dhaka Brahma School was founded by Dinanath Sen, Prabhaticharan Roy, Anathbandhu Mallik and Brajasundar Kaitra. The name Jagannath School was given by Kishorilal Chowdhury, the Zamindar of Baliati in Manikganj, who took over the school in 1872 and renamed it after his father.

In 1884, it was raised to a second grade college. Law was one of the first courses introduced. A common management committee administered the school and college until 1887, when the school section was separated to form the independent Kishore Jubilee School, now known as K. L. Jubilee School. The administration of the college was transferred to a board of trustees in 1907. In the following year, it became a first grade college.

The college started with 48 students. In five years, the roll rose to 396. In 1910, Raja Manmath Roy Chowdhury, the Zamindar of Santosh, Tangail, affiliated the Pramath-Manmath College of Tangail with Jagannath College. With the establishment of the University of Dhaka in 1921, it stopped admission to 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 over by the government in 1968.

Jagannath College opened honours and masters programmes in 1975. That year the government once again took over and upgraded it into a postgraduate college. In 1982, the college closed its programmes at the intermediate level. It introduced evening shifts in 1992.

It was transformed into Jagannath University in 2005 by passage in the national parliament of the Jagannath University Act-2005.[10]

As a university ranked A+ grade by the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, Jagannath University has 36 departments under seven faculties. Every department follows the semester system. As of August 2019 there are 960 teachers and 17,134 students in Honors, Masters, M.Phil and PhD programmes.

There are six faculties, 36 departments, and two institutes at Jagannath University.[11]

Jagannath University Bird View

Administrative building of Jagannath University

Muktijoddher Prostuti, a sculpture on the Bangladesh Liberation War, at the heart of the campus

Building of Faculty of Business Studies

Faculty of Science

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)[12]
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Physics
• Department of Statistics

Bose Corner

Faculty of Fine Arts

• Department of Fine Arts and graphics
• Department of Drama and Dramatics
• Department of Music

Monument for the Martyred of 1857

The teachers and students of the then college took active part in the Language Movement of the early 1950s, the mass movements of the 1960s and the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971.

• Commander BDF Sector 11 – M. Hamidullah Khan Bir Protik – Bangladesh War of Independence 1971.
• Bhanu Bandopadhyay- an Indian actor, known for his work in Bengali cinema. He acted in over 300 movies, in numerous plays and performed frequently on the radio.
• Md. Saifur Rahman Freedom fighter, member of parliament
• Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury – Freedom Fighter of Crack Platoon, Bangladeshi Minister, Member of Parliament, Bangladesh Awami League leader
• Abdul Hamid – sports organizer and sports journalist
• Bhabatosh Dutta – economist
• Premendra Mitra – writer and poet
• Anisuzzaman – educationist, researcher
• Kaliprasanna Vidyaratna – Sanskrit scholar, author
• Haider Hussain – singer
• ATM Shamsuzzaman - actor[14]
• Brojen Das – swimmer, the first Indian to swim the English channel
• Imdadul Haq Milan – novelist and editor
• Mohammed Nasim – Bangladeshi minister

• Official website
• Ministry of Education
• University Grants Commission Bangladesh