Dhaka University, A historical University of Bangladesh

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Dhaka University, A historical University of Bangladesh

Dhaka University was established in 1921. Syed Nawab Ali Chowdhury was the founder of this public university and AAMS Arefin Siddique is the vice-chancellor of DU. It is the top university in Bangladesh. And, we are going to provide the all detail info about this university in the here. We are going to tell you its faculties, facilities, and rankings in the below.

Dhaka University History Location and All Details

Dhaka University is most and top public university in Bangladesh. This university is the leading university in this country. Also, it is the oldest university in Modern Bangladesh. The nickname Dhaka University is DU. It was established when the British Empire rules this country. This university can be located at the heart of Ramna, 1000-Dhaka, Bangladesh. Now, do you know how many students study here? No!  The number of total students is 30,015 among them 20,559 are male and 9,045 students are female.

Now, the number of undergraduate students is 23,620 and postgraduates students are 5,362 and 764 students are doing Doctorate here. The number of academic staff is 2,156 and administrative staff is 3,887. In the Dhaka University, total 1,691 teachers provide education. The campus is too large of DU approximately 600 acres. And, Du has the best hostel facility for the students. It has 11,228 male hostel seats and 6,321 female hostel seats. Also, there are 23 residence halls for the students and dormitories for the teachers.

Dhaka University Faculties

Dhaka University has many modern and international faculties and departments. It actually has 70 departments under 13 faculties and those are given below.

•          Faculty of Arts.

•          Faculty of Business Studies.

•          Faculty of Biological Science.

•          Faculty of Engineering and Technology.

•          Faculty of Education.

•          Faculty of Fine Arts.

•          Faculty of Law.

•          Faculty of Medicine.

•          Faculty of Postgraduates Medical Sciences & Research.

•          Faculty of Pharmacy.

•          Faculty of Science.

•          Faculty of Social Sciences.

•         Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Ranking of Dhaka University

Dhaka University is not only the top rank university of Bangladesh but also it has ranked globally. In 2011-2012 DU entered in the list of top world universities and ranked 551^st place out of 30,000 universities. And, in 2014-2015, it ranked 701^st position and ranked 654^th position in 2015-2016. DU had ranked 109^th position in the 2011-2012 and 77^th position in 2000 in Asia. So, you can see the DU has the top ranking reputation in the world.

Admission Requirements of Dhaka University

Now, if you want to admit in the Dhaka University, you must apply first. But, you need to have some requirements for applying there. For example, you must have the GPA of SSC and HSC that DU want to their students. And, if your GPA matches with their requirements, then you can apply there for the admission test. The DU has 5 units for admission test KA unit, KHA unit, GA unit, GHA unit, and CHA unit. The GPA (SSC+HSC) requirements for all units in DU are.

For KA Unit: GPA 8:00.
For KHA Unit: GPA 7:00.
For GA Unit: GPA 7:50.
For GHA Unit: GPA 7:00.
For CHA Unit: GPA 6:50.

Facilities of the Dhaka University

Dhaka University has many facilities like it has a large campus, great hostel, and lab facilities. And, it also has 11 institutes run under this university. And, its library facility is tremendous. Its library has a separate building which contains more than 617,000 volumes including periodicals. It also has 30,000 manuscripts in various languages and a large number of microfilms, microfiche and CDs in the library.

Finally, we hope you have found this article useful. And, visit our website for more information about Dhaka University. 

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