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| Motto: | "সত্যের জয় সুনিশ্চিত ("Truth Shall Prevail") |
| Established: | 1921 |
| Type: | Public, Coeducational |
| Chancellor: | Iazuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh |
| Vice-Chancellor: | Dr Syed Mohammad Abul Faiz |
| Faculty: | 1,345 |
| Students: | 30,000 |
| Location: | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Campus: | Urban, 600 acres (2.43 km²) |
| Website: | www.univdhaka.edu |
The University of Dhaka (commonly referred to as Dhaka University or just DU) (Bengali: ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় Đhaka Bishshobiddalôe) is the oldest university in Bangladesh. With more than 32,000 students and 1,300 teachers, the University of Dhaka is the largest university in Bangladesh. It is a multi-disciplinary university and is among the top universities in the region. It is the only university in Bangladesh to have been listed in AsiaWeek's listing of top 100 Universities in Asia (64th). [1].
Initially, the university worked hard to build up an outstanding record of academic achievement, earning for itself the reputation for being the 'Oxford of the East'. The university contributed to the emergence of a generation of leaders who distinguished themselves in different occupations in East Bengal.
Until the Partition of Bengal in 1947, it maintained its unique character of being one of the few residential institutions of higher learning in Asia. In 1947, it assumed academic authority over all educational institutions above the secondary level falling within East Bengal. In the process, it became a teaching-cum-affiliating institution. This transformation, coupled with its unprecedented growth in the years that followed, put strains beyond reckoning on its human as well as material resources.[citation needed]
The university demonstrated an inherent strength in its activities during its eventful and often critical existence of over 80 years. Today, it provides about 70% of the trained human resources of Bangladesh engaged in education, science and technology, administration, diplomacy, mass communication, politics, trade and commerce, and industrial enterprises in all sectors. Students and teachers of this university have played a major role in shaping the history of Bangladesh.[citation needed]
In 2007, Webometrics[1] ranked this university's website 2nd in Bangladesh and 56th in the Indian subcontinent in their World Universities Ranking[2] based on electronic publication, scientific results and international activities.[3] Moreover it is 5918th in the world[citation needed].
Established in 1921 under the Dacca University Act 1920 of the Indian Legislative Council, it is modelled after British universities. Academic activities started on July 1, 1921 with 3 faculties, 12 teaching departments, 60 teachers, 847 students and 3 residential halls.
It is believed that a combination of political, social and economic compulsions persuaded the government of India to establish a university at Dhaka 'as a splendid imperial compensation' to Muslims for the annulment of the partition of Bengal. The first vice-chancellor of the university, Dr. PJ Hartog, a former academic registrar of the University of London for 17 years and a member of the University of Calcutta Commission, described this phenomenon as the 'political origin' of the institution.
The Partition of Bengal in 1905 provided the Muslim majority community of East Bengal and Assam with a sphere of influence of their own and raised new hopes for the development of the region and advancement of its people. But its annulment, barely six years later due to stiff opposition from the powerful Hindu leadership, was viewed by Muslims as 'a grievous wrong'. Muslims were late to realise that their educational backwardness was a root cause of their decline in other fields of life.
Viceroy Lord Hardinge was quick to perceive the dissatisfaction of Muslims and decided to pay an official visit to Dhaka to assuage the aggrieved community. A deputation of high ranking Muslim leaders, including Khan Bahadur Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky, Sir Nawab Khwaja Salimullah, Nawab Syed Nawab Ali Choudhury and A. K. Fazlul Huq, met him on January 31, 1912 and expressed their fears that the annulment would retard the educational progress of their community. As compensation for the annulment of the Partition, the deputation made a vigorous demand for a university at Dhaka. In response, Lord Hardinge affirmed that education was the true salvation of Muslims and that the government would recommend the constitution of such a university to the Secretary of State.
Many Hindu leaders were not happy with the government's intention to set up a university at Dhaka. On February 16, 1912, a delegation headed by advocate Dr Rash Bihari Ghosh, met the viceroy and expressed the apprehension that the establishment of a separate university at Dhaka would promote 'an internal partition of Bengal'. They also contended, as was recorded in the Calcutta University Commission report later, that "Muslims of Eastern Bengal were in large majority cultivators and they would benefit in no way by the foundation of a university". Lord Hardinge assured that the new university would be open to all and it would be a teaching and a residential university.
The opposition by Hindu intelligentsia was not the only hurdle in implementation of the plan for the new university. Many complex legal and material issues were to be examined. After obtaining the approval of the Secretary of State, the government of India invited the government of Bengal to submit a complete scheme for the university. Accordingly, in a resolution of May 27, 1912, the government of Bengal appointed a committee of 13 members headed by Mr Robert Nathan, a barrister from London, to draw up a scheme for Dhaka University.The committee acted with speed and with the thoroughness and wisdom of 25 special sub-committees, it submitted its report in autumn of the same year. The report contained plans of the proposed buildings and estimates of capital expenditure amounting to Rs 5.3 million (later raised to Rs 6.7 million by the Public Works and Development agency) and of recurring expenditure amounting to Rs 1.2 million. The report went into considerable details about the mission of the university and its courses of study. The committee recommended that the university should be a state institution with unitary teaching and residential form on the model of modern UK universities such as Manchester, Leeds, and Liverpool, and that it should encompass seven colleges including Dacca College and Jagannath College. The entire teaching in science, law, medicine, and engineering at postgraduate level was to be conducted by the university itself. In fact, the Dhaka University model was highly appraised and was later, followed in establishing new universities at Allahabad, Benaras, Hyderabad, Aligarh, Lucknow and Annamalai.
The Nathan Committee suggested for the university a spectacular site of about 243 acres (0.98 km2) forming part of the new civil station created at Ramna for the government of Eastern Bengal and Assam. The site housed Curzon Hall, Dacca College, the new government house, the secretariat, the government press, a number of houses for officers, and other minor buildings. In due course, all this land with their buildings and other properties was made over to the university in a permanent lease on a nominal rent of Rs 1,000 a year. After the committee report was published in 1913, the Secretary of State approved it in December 1913. Then with the emergence of First World War, acute financial stringency led the government to keep the decision in abeyance. This caused misgivings in the minds of Muslim leaders. When Nawab Syed Nawab Ali Choudhury raised the issue in the Indian Legislative Council on March 7, 1917, Shankaran Nair, the government spokesman, reaffirmed the government pledge to establish the university.
The decision to appoint a commission to enquire into the problems and needs of Calcutta University was announced by its chancellor Lord Chelmsford at convocation on January 6, 1917. Accordingly a commission was formed with Dr. ME Sadler as its chairman. The Commission agreed with most parts of the Nathan Committee scheme and urged that the University of Dhaka should be established without further delay.
The commission made 13 recommendations, which were mostly adopted, in the Dacca University Act 1920. The Governor General of India appointed Dr. PJ Hartog as the first vice-chancellor for a term of 5 years beginning December 1, 1920. He assumed office on December 10, 1920.Hartog put the university on a firm footing in his 5-year tenure of dedicated service.The advancement of the young university in the direction of academic excellence diligently marked by Hartog was carried forward by able successors such as Prof Harry Langley, AF Rahman, Dr. RC Majumdar, Dr. Mahmood Hasan and others.
From its inception, the University of Dhaka has been a place for many great scholars and scientists. From 1926 - 1945 the renowned physicist Satyendra Nath Bose served as a professor. It was during this period that he published his famous papers in collaboration with Albert Einstein, most notably defining Bose-Einstein condensate.
The university was witness to another historical event, as it was in the campus of Dhaka University that the original Flag of Bangladesh was unfurled for the first time, at a time of national crisis with the Bangladesh Liberation War looming closer. The University saw its share of the genocide initiated by Pakistani dictatorship in 1971, as many pupils and professors were killed in Operation Searchlight by the Pakistan Army.
The Partition of Bengal in 1947 considerably altered the character of Dhaka University. The East Bengal Educational Ordinance of 1947 added an affiliating character to its residential-cum-teaching model by calling upon it to assume the responsibilities of affiliation and supervision of 55 colleges, which were previously under the University of Calcutta. The university was relieved of this responsibility in 1992 when the National University was created to take over this task.
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During World War II the government of India requisitioned some buildings of the university for military use. After Partition, the new government of East Pakistan requisitioned many more of them for offices and residences of government employees. This created an acute problem of accommodation to add to the problem of finance. The Pakistan government was indifferent to the university's needs and planned to move the university away from the city to keep its students out of politics. When General Ayub Khan seized power in October 1958, teachers and students of the university were already in the forefront of protests against the government's attempts to suppress the demands of the East Pakistanis for autonomy and the rightful place for Bengali as a state language of the country. In 1952, during the Bengali Language Movement effort, police killed some students agitating for a place of honour for their mother tongue. The government responded by replacing the Dacca University Act 1920 by an ordinance in 1961, totally depriving the university of its autonomy and democratic traditions. Termed a 'black law', the ordinance created a suffocating atmosphere in the university. The atmosphere of terror and oppression created in the whole country by successive military regimes led to mass upsurge, and ultimately, to the War of Liberation waged by Bengalis in 1971. Teachers and students of the university were in the forefront of this war and paid a heavy price in blood.
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The War of Liberation severely crippled Dhaka University's academics when a large number of its distinguished teachers and a considerable number of its students and employees were killed. The emergence of several new universities later did little to ease this burden.
The teachers, who were killed, include Dr. GC Dev, Dr. ANM Muniruzzaman, Santosh C Bhattacharya, Dr. Jyotirmoy Guha Thakurta, AN Munir Chowdhury, Mofazzal Haider Chowdhury, Dr. Abul Khair, Dr. Serajul Hoque Khan, Rashidul Hasan, Anwar Pasha, Dr. Fazlur Rahman, Giasuddin Ahmed, Dr. Faizul Mohi, Abdul Muktadir, Sarafat Ali, Sadat Ali, AR Khan Khadim, and Anudippayan Bhattachariya. The university's chief medical officer, Dr. Mohammad Mortuza, and a teacher of the University Laboratory School, Mohammad Sadeq were also killed.
Today, there are 10 faculties, 52 departments, 9 institutes, 34 research centres, 1,545 teachers, about 30,000 students, 18 residential halls and 2 hostels.[4] [2] Two-thirds of the present faculty possesses degrees from universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Many of them achieved international reputation for their scholarly works. Many also have the experience of teaching in well-known institutions of higher learning abroad.
Departments
The science faculty was started with only three department in 1921 - Physics , Chemistry & Mathematics Department.Now there are about nine departments in faculty of science.[5]
Departments
Constituent Colleges
Departments
Established out of Faculty of Science in late 1960s, this faculty includes departments of Pharmacy, Pharmacology etc.
Departments
Constituent Colleges
It was established on the 1 January 1974. Previously the departments of this faculty was associated with the Faculty of Science. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Soil Science, Microbiology , Botany & Zoology are the mention-worthy departments of the faculty.
Departments
Affiliated Colleges
It is one of the leading faculties of University of Dhaka. In 1922 , one year after the establishment of University of Dhaka,Department of Commerce was founded under Faculty of Arts. Later in 1970 it started its activities as a separate faculty.
Departments
Constituent College
Established in late 70's, this faculty includes leading departments like Economics, Public Administration, International Relations, Political Science and Sociology.
Departments
Constituent College
The oldest faculty of the University includes departments like, Philosophy,History,Mass Communication & Journalism,English,Linguistics,Bengali, Arabic etc.Information science & Library management is here.
Constituent Colleges/Institutes
Constituent Colleges/Institutes
The institutes are the constituent schools of the university with separate governing bodies. They function under the executive and academic control of the University. There are in total 9 Institutes in Dhaka University.
Institute of Business Administration (IBA) carries the distinction of being the pioneer of all the business schools of Bangladesh. It is absolutely free from any kind of session jam.
In the annual session of June 2001, The Dhaka University Senate established Institute of Information Technology (IIT)[3]. by converting the erstwhile Computer Center (Estd. in 1985). The aim was to produce skilled manpower in the field of Information Technology (IT) and to establish a computer network in the University. The three-storey red ceramic IIT building has a quiet ambience and is adjacent to Dhaka University Centre of Excellence in Science and the Institute of Statistical Training and Research (ISRT).
Dev Center for Philosophical Studies was founded in 1980 in the name of Professor Dr. Govinda Chandra Dev, in brief, Dr. G. C. Dev [4].
At present, the Director of the Center is Dr. Galib Ahsan Khan. He was appointed as the Director on 20th February 2008, for a term of two years.
Two journals are published from the center, every year; one is in English with the title, Philosophy and Progress and the other is in Bengali language. Programs of the Center also include arrangements for monthly seminers. The topics for the papers to be submitted for publication in the journals or for seminers, should be philosophy related. A good remuneration is given for the paper, whether it is for the journals or for the monthly seminer.
In 1981, the University of Dhaka set up the Renewable Energy Research Centre (RERC) with following aims and objects [5]:
Established in year 2005, current director: Prof. Dr. A.H. Ahmed Kamal.
Journal of Statistical Research (JSR) is being published since 1970. The Journal is published twice a year, one in June and the other in December. The areas of interest of this journal covers Mathematical Statistics, Quality control in Industries, Biostatistics, Sampling Techniques and Computer intensive statistics with graphics.
The University of Dhaka entered into more than 90 International Collaboration Programmes with renowned University and Institutes of different countries of the world.
The University contains about 220 Trusts and Foundations named after distinguished personalities and Organizations, offering scholarships and medals to meritorious students of the University. Besides, a large number of scholarships are also offered by the University, Dhaka University Alumni Association and the Government.
A dormitory is called a Hall in the university. Students admitted to the Departments and Institutes of the University have either to reside in or be attached to a hall of residence. The University has thirteen halls of residence and two hostels for male students; and four halls of residence and one hostel for female students. The administration of a hall is headed by a Provost who is assisted by a number of House Tutors and Assistant House Tutors while the administration of a hostel is controlled by a Warden assisted by Assistant Warden(s).
Male Students' Halls and Hostels
Povost : Dr. Abdush Sattar
Assistant Warden : Reza Asad Al Huda Anupam
Female Students' Halls and Hostel
Currently, the construction of a Twin Hall (500+500 capacity) for female students is in progress.
The University Library is the biggest in Bangladesh. It is housed in three separate buildings :
Building, close to the Arts Building;
Building, and
the Mukarram Hossain Khundker Science Building area.
The Library holds a collection of more than 617,000 volumes, including bound volumes of periodicals. In addition, it has a collection of over 30,000 manuscripts on various languages and a large number of microfilms, microfiche and CDs. It subscribes to over 300 current foreign journals. The main Library Building contains reading materials, including text books, reference materials, journals, etc. in the disciplines of arts, social sciences, business studies, and law. Readers can issue available books from the issue counter. A complete automation of the system is in the process. The Confined Section of the Main Library Building contains numerous rare books. The Computer Section is housed in the extension building of the Library.
The Library Administrative Building accommodates the Administrative, Manuscripts Reprography, Acquisition, Processing, and Binding sections. Important reading materials can be reproduced in the forms of microfilms and photocopies from the Reprographic Section as well as from the Reading Rooms.
The Science Library contains reading materials, including text books, reference materials, journals, etc. Borrowing and photocopying facilities of reading materials for science students and teachers are available in that section of the library.
A Resource Center for the Visually Impaired Students has been established in the Dhaka University Central Library under the joint collaboration of the University of Dhaka and an international organization, called Sight-savers. The Centre contains modern library facilities for the visually impaired students of the University.
The students Counselling and Guidance Service is an integral part of the academic programmes of students of the teaching Departments and Institutes of the University. It aims at helping students to adjust to campus life, effectively pursue curricular as well as co-curricular activities, develop their abilities for making wise choices and plans, and solve individual problems through counselling.
The following are the principal activities of the Counselling and Guidance Service:
information for students
the University followed by formal assemblies of students at appropriate time and place
through teacher-advisors of respective Departments and Institutes
problems.
The University of Dhaka organizes sports and other extracurricular and recreational activities.
The Office of the Director of Physical Education provides three types of programmes:
Physical Education is a compulsory subject for first and second year undergraduate students. All undergraduate students are required to undergo a course of physical instruction for the first two years according to their needs and interests.
The Directorate also organizes and conducts interdepartment and inter-hall tournaments, individual hall athletics, Dhaka University athletics, and Inter- University games and sports. University students participate in national championships in different games and sports for which prior training and coaching are offered.
The University has four standard size playgrounds : three of these are at the halls and one at the Sports Centre. The Centre also has a brick-built covered gallery for spectators, and basketball hard courts.
The Medical Centre of the University of Dhaka, located near the Science Annex Building, offers free medical service and free pathological examinations to students, teachers and staffs of the University and also family members of the teachers and staffs. The Centre provides service round the clock, seven days a week, with 30 doctors working in different shifts. The Centre also has dental unit, eye unit, x-ray department and two ambulances. The Centre has in its premises arrangement for 30 bed accommodation so that students suffering from such contagious diseases as chicken pox, mumps, etc. may be taken care of in isolation.
A small Operation Theatre has been established in the Centre to meet minor surgeries. Students get medicine from the Centre free of cost and employees get medicine at cost price. Physiotherapy service is also given to senior members and disable patients of the university family. A Homeo Unit, consisting of 6 Homeo doctors, provides treatment and medicines free of cost to the students, teachers and staffs and their family members.
There are some cafeteria in the area of University of Dhaka. Some of them are historically important.The Madhur Canteen is not only a cafeteria, but also a place of historical interest of Bangladesh.
The Dhaka University Ground is the official stadium of the University of Dhaka. It hosts many inter-collegiate sports tournaments at inter-city, provincial and national levels. It is located in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Students who have passed the SSC and the HSC Examinations (after 12 years of schooling) or examinations equivalent to HSC of Bangladesh Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education with required GPA are considered eligible for admission to the Degree Honours Courses. Admission is highly competitive and every year the University Admission Committee fixes a standard of academic attainment at the SSC and HSC levels. Selection of students for admission is made through admission tests. All candidates have to take a written test and must score the pass marks to qualify in the admission test. Students who passed at least five subjects in the GCE "0" level and two subjects in the "A" level examinations are also eligible to apply for admission. They are required to obtain at least B Grade in three subjects and C Grade in other four subjects among the seven subjects of "0" Level and "A" Level.
Students who pass the Honours Examinations of this University are admitted in the Masters programme. International students are also allowed to get admission in the Master’s degree programmes if their academic records are found acceptable by the equivalence committee of the university.
International Students must apply well in advance through their respective embassy in Bangladesh to the Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh, enclosing evidence of examinations passed and transcripts of academic records.
The Teacher-Student center (TSC) of the University came into being in 1961. It is certainly historically important, known to render service to the student and teacher as well as to other communities of the society with its facilities.
Teacher-Student Centre, the only one of its kind in Bangladesh, is an all-campus activity centre designed for relaxation and guidance. It has its value as community centre unifying the life of the university and serves as a sponsor of self-directed activity in which students learn that they are responsible for the welfare of their university and their country. The Centre seeks to foster a type of campus community life which supplements the formal academic programme of the University.
The Centre brings together under one roof dining rooms and meeting rooms, library and reading rooms, art and music rooms, stage and multipurpose hall, games rooms, etc. These form the social and cultural heart of the campus. Students and faculty members mingle in the cafeteria and the bookstore lounges, sports and recreational areas. Recognized campus organizations hold their meetings and functions, lectures, and arts exhibitions here. Discussion sessions are frequently scheduled, journals and bulletins published, and competitions held, giving the university a varied and interesting programme of cultural and social events. TSC, in the meantime, designated and fixed few dates for some events. For example, Basanta Utshab (13-14 Feb), Boishaki Utshab (15-19 April), Fete de la Musique (02 July) and Friendship Day (First Sunday of August). TSC created a working field by the formation of the Dhaka University Cultural Team with a new approach which reflected a great impact amongst the student community. T.S.C. is resounded by the teachers, students of different halls, activists of socio-cultural organizations with various programmes of educational, co-curricular and entertainments; national and international seminars, symposia, fresher's and fare-well receptions and orientation programmes of different Departments and Institutes.
The Centre also houses the office of the Dhaka University Debating Society, Dhaka University Film Society, Dhaka University Tourist Society, Dhaka University Journalists Association, Dhaka University Chess Club, different Socio-Cultural Groups of the students, Rover Scout, Dhaka University Publication Centre, Bank, Utilityshop, Food Corner, and also the facilities of a voluntary blood donation organization, called Badhan, organized by the students of the University.
With an honest and sincere intention of establishing voluntary blood donation as a social movement, the organization named Badhan was established on October 24, 1997 by a group of students of Shahidullah Hall, University of Dhaka. At present, the movement has spread out in 27 institutions of Bangladesh. All the residential Halls of the University have their unit of 'Badhan'. Dhaka University students donated more than nine thousand bags of blood in the year 2007. 'Badhan' also provides vaccines at low cost to the students and works for the afflicted humanity during national calamities.
Dhaka University Journalists Association (DUJA) is an organization of the students of the University of Dhaka who work as University Correspondents of different newspapers, news agencies and electronic media. Established in 1985, the organization has been contributing to boost the day-to-day activities of the university in the national and international arena.
Dhaka University Tourist Society (DUTS), established in 1995, is a voluntary students' organization that aims at creating interest in tourism and involving the students of the university in developing the tourism sector of Bangladesh and also creating social awareness for the same. DUTS organizes tours, national rallies to mark World Tourism Day, youth awareness campaigns, documentary film shows, tourism fairs and festivals, cultural programmes, tourism related workshops etc. It also provides all kinds of information about tour and tourism sector.
Dhaka University Photographic Society (DUPS), a voluntary students' organization of the university, organizes training programmes in photography for the students of the university.The society was born in 1999. DUPS has successfully completed 14 Basic Photography training program in which nearly 800 students get the chance to learn Basic Photography.
Dhaka University Film Society (DUFS) is one of the pioneers of film society movement in Bangladesh. With great success it still holds the reputation of being one of most active film societies of the country. [6]
DUFS is a student organization of University of Dhaka. With a motto of “Better Film, Better Viewers”, DUFS believes in the strength of Film as a massive art and communication media. It believes that better films can create better people and thus can make the world more serene and creative. Thus this cultural organization is working for a better humanitarian world using Film as a tool to change the society.
Raised in 1927 under the Indian Territorial Forces Act 1923, UOTC has imparted military training to university students from its inception. In March 23, 1979, all battalions raised here and in other institutions were merged to form the Bangladesh National Cadet Corps (BNCC).
The following are the objectives of the Bangladesh National Cadet Corps:
The Dhaka University Rover Scout Group has been playing an important role in the Bangladesh Scout Movement and in various discipline-related and voluntary activities in the University.
There are five units, including a girl-in-scouting, in Dhaka University Rover Scout Group. At present there are more than three hundred trained Rovers in these five units.
The Bangladesh Association of Young Researchers (BAYR) is the first national youth research association in Bangladesh established on 3rd October, 2005 with a view to improve the research and development activities in Bangladesh by the young scholars. At mid September four students of the University of Dhaka think about the research organization, totally headed and organized by the young peoples and keeps the interest of young researchers [7]. In this regard they talked with some intellectuals and prominent researchers. And with their suggestion and inspiration they, the four potential scholars, established the association.
Monthly Din Badaler Katha is the monthly magazine of University of Dhaka, published by the students since 1997 to 2000. Prof. ATM Johurul Hoq, Prof. Mohabbat Ali Khan, Prof. A.M.S. Arefin Siddique and Dr. Mahbubur Rahman was the Advisor of the Magazine, Edited by Abdullah Harun.
University of Dhaka, the oldest post-graduate institution of the country, has in the meantime, conferred certificates upon more than 1.6 million graduates. However, Dhaka University Alumni Association (DUAA) was established on 24 September 1949 with late Justice M. Ibrahim as its President. One cannot imagine Bangladesh without the Alumni of the University of Dhaka.
Since its establishment DUAA is committed towards development of the University of Dhaka and welfare of its students through providing scholarships, stipends and funding in the academic pursuits of the students. Besides, it undertakes various projects to preserve the traditions of the University, adding to the academic excellence of the University of Dhaka in general in co-operation with the University authorities.
Having financial assistance from Eastern Bank Ltd. DUAA has introduced 224 scholarships along with carrier building counseling to meritorious students of all the 57 departments of Dhaka University. Furthermore, forty four meritorious students of all the 9 institutes under the University of Dhaka are also provided with similar scholarships and job training by Mutual Trust Bank Ltd and DUAA jointly.
About 20,000 SFT space has been allotted by the University to Dhaka University Alumni Association at the ground floor of the newly constructed "Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban" for the construction of its office rooms and other facilities. With the passage of time and in cooperation with University of Dhaka, DUAA is now considered as a vibrant organization having nearly 3500 life members in its roll which are increasing every day. Duly registered by the government, DUAA is run by its own constitution and manned by a 33 member Executive Committee whose every account is properly audited and kept in its website "alumni.univdhaka. edu".
The Nobel Laureate, Dr. Muhammed Yunus, an alumnus of the University, is a member of the Dhaka University Alumni Association.
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