Bangladesh University of Business and Technology or BUBT is one of the eight private universities to receive the green Signal from the government, located in Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The university was established under the Private University Act 1992. BUBT is regulated by the BangladeshUniversity Grants Commission. BUBT was founded in 2003 under the authority of the Private University Act and was approved by the University Grants Commission and the Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh. It was modeled after North American universities. It started its operation in the Dhaka Commerce College campus, the founder organization of BUBT, in 2019 campus permanently shifted. Now It is running its all programs in its own campus at Rupnagar R/A, Mirpur 2. In 2011 UGC has ranked BUBT as one of the best eight private universities. Around 1,000 students were awarded with their graduate and post graduate degrees in the first convocation this year. BUBT is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
Campus
Bangladesh University of Business and Technology has a location in Mirpur, Dhaka, adjacent to Dhaka Commerce College, the National Zoo and the Botanical Garden. The administrative and academic activities of BUBT are carried out in a newly constructed south facing eleven stored spacious building having amenities for teaching and learning. The building will ultimately be raised to 20 levels having more than 150,000 squire feet space under the same roof.
Scholarships and waivers
There are provisions for scholarship, stipend and tuition fee waiver for the students in BUBT.
Scholarships, stipends and fee waivers are awarded to a minimum of 6% students of the University on the basis of need and merit.
For Undergraduate Programs special tuition fee waiver from 25% to 100% based on total GPA of the SSC and the HSC Examination results, is given for the first year.
For subsequent semesters tuition fee waiver is also given on the basis of the examination results of each semester at BUBT.
Students of Dhaka Commerce College and Principal Kazi Faruky School & College are allowed an additional 20 percent tuition fee waiver.
Tuition fee waiver is available for sibling and spouse.
BUBT follows a model of higher education consisting of semesters, courses, credit hours, continuous evaluation and letter grading. The academic year begins from October and runs through September of the following year. An academic year is divided into the following three semesters:
Fall : October - January
Spring : February - May
Summer : June - September
The semester duration is usually of fifteen weeks-thirteen weeks for classes and two weeks for final examination and result.
