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The University of Chittagong is a public university situated at Hathazari Upazila Chittagong district, Bangladesh. The university was established in 1966. The campus is at 22 km north of Chittagong city. Therefore, it has shuttle trains service from 7:00 A.M. to 9:30 P.M. for students. There are bus services for the faculties and staffs. The University of Chittagong is surrounded by hills, and is bisected by a small stream. Dr. Muhammad Yunus, who was a faculty of this university and founder of Grameen Bank and a pioneer in Microcredit theory in Economics, and the 2006 winner of Nobel Prize in peace, started his first experiments from this campus at the neighbouring village of Zobra. Dr. Jamal Nazrul Islam, a noted mathematician and physicist, is an existing faculty member.

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Faculty and departments

With a modest beginning of 4 departments in 1966, the University of Chittagong has grown to 8 individual faculties, 35 departments, 3 institutes and 3 research centres. It has 3 affiliated Medical colleges under the Faculty of Medicine and 1 Veterinary Medicine College under the faculty of Veterinary Medicine. The veterinary medical college has recently been upgraded into a separate University. As such the number of faculties at present is 7. Current student enrolment is more than 15,000. Following is a list of faculties and the related departments.

* Faculty of Science
o Department of Computer Science and Engineering
o Department of Applied Physics, Electronics & Communication Engineering
o Department of Chemistry
o Department of Mathematics
o Department of Statistics
o Department of Physics
o Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries
o Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences
o Research Centre for Mathematics and Physical Sciences (RCMPS)

* Faculty of Biological Sciences
o Department of Botany
o Department of Zoology
o Department of Microbiology
o Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
o Department of Geography and Environmental Science
o Department of Soil Science
o Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
o Department of Psychology


* Faculty of Arts
o Department of Bengali
o Department of English
o Department of History
o Department of Islamic History and Culture
o Department of Philosophy
o Department of Fine Arts
o Department of Arabic
o Department of Oriental Languages
o Department of Islamic Studies and Culture
o Department of Communication and Journalism
o Nazrul Research Centre



* Faculty of Social Science
o Department of Economics
o Department of Political Science
o Department of Sociology
o Department of Public Administration
o Department of Anthropology
o Department of International Relations (IR)
o Department of Home Economics
o Institute of Development Studies


* Faculty of Business Administration
o Department of Accounting and Information System
o Department of Management Studies
o Department of Marketing studies and International Marketing(MSIM)
o Department of Finance and Banking
o Bureau of Business Research


* Faculty of Law
o Department of Law
* Faculty of Medicine
o Chittagong Medical College
o Comilla Medical College


* Other affiliated colleges
o Chittagong Home Economics College
o Chittagong University Laboratory School and College

Degrees offered

The university offers 4 Year Bachelor of Science (Honours) (B.Sc.), 1 Year Masters of Science (M.Sc.), both thesis and course work based, under the faculty of Science. The medium of instruction of this Faculty is English. Also, Post Graduate Degree (PGD) in Computer Science and Information Technology are offered.

It offers 4 Year Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and 1 Year Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degrees under the faculty of Business Administration, 4 Year Bachelor of Social Science (BSS) and 1 Year Masters of Social Science (MSS) degrees under the Faculty of Social Science, 4 Year Bachelor of Arts (BA) and 1 Year Masters of Arts (MA) degrees under the faculty of Arts, 4 Year LLB and 1 Year LLM degree under the Faculty of Law. Chittagong University is the pioneer to offer 4 year BBA, BSc(Hons) in Forestry, Environmental Sciences, and Marine Science in Bangladesh. The university also offers 1 Year MS, 2 Year MPhil and 3 Year PhD degree by research.