Begum Rokeya University

Campus

The university is located between Rangpur Cadet College and Carmichael College in Rangpur. It covers an area of 75 acres (300,000 m2). The university has constructed four academic building and started class from August 2011 in the main campus. Currently, the university has twenty department and amount of student is almost three thousand.

Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur named after a legendary woman scholar Begum Rokeya who pioneered and promoted female education in Indo-Pak-Bangla subcontinent, is located in the city of Rangpur, in the north east zone of Bangladesh. With its so-called connotations of impoverishment, deprivation and poverty, Rangpur is a culturally vibrant place – an excellent center of arts, culture and education. It prides itself on its rich heritage of numerous contributions and achievements of many scholars, poets, novelists, social and political thinkers and philanthropists. Here are a good number of age-old educational institutions and cultural organizations.

The construction of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur is still continuing in its own campus on the outskirts of Rangpur in the south. Rangpur, a peaceful and tranquil town, is just a 6 hours’ drive from the bustling, crowded city of Dhaka. However, it has good transportation facilities – train, bus and airlines. It is easily accessible because of its interconnecting transportation routes and linkages between all the districts of the country.

Motto	জ্ঞানই শক্তি (Bengali)
Motto in English	Knowledge is Power
Established	2008
Type	public
Chancellor	Mohammad Zillur Rahman, President of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Vice-Chancellor	Abdul Jalil Miah
Location	Rangpur, Bangladesh
Campus	75 acres (300,000 m2), Adjacent to Carmichael College and Rangpur Cadet College
Nickname	BRU
Website	http://www.brur.ac.bd/

History

Since 1947, a university in this region has been a long cherished dream. A popular demand for a kind of university which can reach out to a large number of students desiring higher education in this vast region has always been intensely felt but has never been fulfilled. Fortunately, on October 12, 2008 Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (initially named as Rangpur University) was founded and started its academic activities from the session 2008 – 2009, following the semester system. Each academic year consists of 2 semesters (one semester lasting for 6 months including holidays and vacations).

At the beginning of the university, about 18000 (eighteen thousand) students from different parts of Bangladesh contested for only 300 seats in the first admission test of this university. These three hundred students were enrolled into 6 departments under 2 faculties – Bangla, English, Economics and Business Administration under the Faculty of Arts and Social Science; and Mathematics and Computer Science and Engineering under the Faculty of Science and Engineering

Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur has a good faculty of lecturers, assistant professors, associate professors and professors who were educated and earned their degrees at home and abroad. In the process of its expansion, the University is still recruiting more teachers and officials. With the patronage of the local philanthropists, Begum Rokeya Scholarlship Foundation has been formed for the talented students. Within a very short time, Begum Rokeya University has successfully organized different events and programs – Bangla New Year, Rabindra-Nazrul Birth Anniversary, Inter-Department Debate and Football Competitions, National Mourning Day and so on.

The university hopes to go a long way to meet the needs for quality education, and to be an excellent center for research and other social activities.

Administration

Academics

BRU has six Faculties and the Departments are…

Faculty of Arts

1.Department of Bangla

2.Department of English

3.Department of History & Archaeology

4.Faculty of Science

5.Department of Physics

6.Department of Chemistry

7.Department of Mathematics

8.Department of Statistics

9.Faculty of Business Studies

10.Department of Accounting and Information System

11.Department of Management Studies

12.Department of Marketing

13.Department of Finance & Banking

14.Faculty of Social Science

15.Department of Economics

16.Department of Sociology

17.Department of Political Science

18.Department of Info. Science & Library Management

19.Department of Mass Communication & Journalism

20.Department of Women and Gender Studies

21.Faculty of Engineering & Technology

22.Department of Civil Engineering & Technology (CET)

23.Department of Computer Science & Engineering(CSE)

24.Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering (ETE)

25.Faculty of Life & Earth Sciences

26.Department of Geography & Environmental Science

27.Department of Disaster Management

Central Library and Information Center

The Central Library and Information Center (CLIC) of Begum Rokeya University was established on 12 October 2008 with an aim to support the instructional and research programs of the University. The Vice-Chancellor of the University opened all activities of CLIC on 19 November 2009. Initially, CLIC started functioning at the temporary campus of the University (Teachers’ Training College, Rangpur). It was shifted to the permanent campus on 19 March 2011. This library & Information center has large reading rooms with huge resources such as books, journals, periodicals etc.

Location:

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