Northern University reaches a new height
FE special | Sunday, 3 August 2008
DESPITE limitation of campus facilities, Northern University Bangladesh (NUB), one of the leading private universities of the country, has successfully completed its second convocation ceremony earlier this month.. It is attracting a good number of new students every year.
A total of 1,283 graduates were conferred degrees in different disciplines of the university at the ceremony of its second convocation.
The university, established in 2002 with a vision of 'Thinking Globally and Acting Locally', has presently about nine thousand students studying under its six faculties on its three campuses in the capital city of Dhaka and two others at Rajshahi and Khulna .
According to the university's management, the NUB has a sufficient number of skilled and experienced faculty members, necessary educational equipments, other facilities and above all an excellent studying atmosphere with no student politics on its campuses.
The mission of the university, run under the leadership of its Vice-chancellor Prof Dr M Shamsul Haque, is to offer quality education, which can greatly contribute to socio-economic development of the country as well as its people, at an affordable cost.
Scientist Prof Dr Nurul Islam has joined the NUB as Dean of the Faculty of Science. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) under the Faculty of Science offers BSc in Computer Science and Engineering and BSc in Electronics and Communication Engineering degrees.
The Science faculty has 20 full-time and 12 part-time teachers to teach around 600 students. The faculty has 300 computers with two computer labs, a rich library with a good number of text and reference books and free-Internet facilities to support the students.
The Faculty of Business is headed by its Dean Prof Dr M Azhar Uddin, former Pro-VC of Rajshahi University. The faculty has 45 full-time and 25 part-time teachers. It offers courses focusing on employment.
A good number of country's renowned professionals in the banking and financial sectors and high officials have studied MBA in this university.
NUB's Pharmacy Department started its journey with a vision to create specialists in the country. The department of Pharmacy has got approval from Accreditation and Education Committee of Pharmacy Council of Bangladesh.
The Faculty of Law is guided by its Dean Prof Dr AWM Huq, who is a former Vice-Chancellor of DIU.
The NUB has also launched some exceptional courses like Microsoft PIL (Partners in Learning) programme with Microsoft Bangladesh, Teaching Quality Improvement (TQI) with Ministry of Education, Executive Masters of Business Administration (MBA) with BIAM and Post-graduate in Government Studies with BCS Administration Academy.
A total of 1,283 graduates were conferred degrees in different disciplines of the university at the ceremony of its second convocation.
The university, established in 2002 with a vision of 'Thinking Globally and Acting Locally', has presently about nine thousand students studying under its six faculties on its three campuses in the capital city of Dhaka and two others at Rajshahi and Khulna .
According to the university's management, the NUB has a sufficient number of skilled and experienced faculty members, necessary educational equipments, other facilities and above all an excellent studying atmosphere with no student politics on its campuses.
The mission of the university, run under the leadership of its Vice-chancellor Prof Dr M Shamsul Haque, is to offer quality education, which can greatly contribute to socio-economic development of the country as well as its people, at an affordable cost.
Scientist Prof Dr Nurul Islam has joined the NUB as Dean of the Faculty of Science. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) under the Faculty of Science offers BSc in Computer Science and Engineering and BSc in Electronics and Communication Engineering degrees.
The Science faculty has 20 full-time and 12 part-time teachers to teach around 600 students. The faculty has 300 computers with two computer labs, a rich library with a good number of text and reference books and free-Internet facilities to support the students.
The Faculty of Business is headed by its Dean Prof Dr M Azhar Uddin, former Pro-VC of Rajshahi University. The faculty has 45 full-time and 25 part-time teachers. It offers courses focusing on employment.
A good number of country's renowned professionals in the banking and financial sectors and high officials have studied MBA in this university.
NUB's Pharmacy Department started its journey with a vision to create specialists in the country. The department of Pharmacy has got approval from Accreditation and Education Committee of Pharmacy Council of Bangladesh.
The Faculty of Law is guided by its Dean Prof Dr AWM Huq, who is a former Vice-Chancellor of DIU.
The NUB has also launched some exceptional courses like Microsoft PIL (Partners in Learning) programme with Microsoft Bangladesh, Teaching Quality Improvement (TQI) with Ministry of Education, Executive Masters of Business Administration (MBA) with BIAM and Post-graduate in Government Studies with BCS Administration Academy.