Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University


Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University is a public university in Bangladesh. It is the only specialised veterinary university in Bangladesh. It is located at Khulshi, Chittagong. The chancellor of the university is president Abdul Hamid. Generally, the public universities in Bangladesh offer degree on department. Like every other agricultural university in Bangladesh, CVASU offers degree on faculty.
The fifth Annual Scientific Conference of Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University was held in 2007. Recently, on 19 September 2017, the 3rd National DVM Intern Research Conference, 2017 was held.

History

Chittagong Veterinary And Animal Sciences University was established as "Chittagong Government Veterinary College " in the year of 1995–96. CGVC started its journey in January 1996 by admitting 50 students in its first academic session under the affiliation of Faculty of Science of University of Chittagong. It was upgraded to Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University on 7 August 2006; under the CVASU act, 2006.

Campuses

Main Campus

The main campus of the university is located at Khulshi area of Chitagong. Academic works run here.

Cox's Bazar outreach Campus

The campus is actually a research-based campus of the university which is mainly focused on sea-related projects. Construction of hatchery and filtration unit is going on the campus. This campus is the first outreach campus for an autonomous public university. Fisheries department of CVASU also began crab farming in the campus.

Hathazari research and farm based Campus

It is a research and farm-based campus of the university which is located at Hathazari Upazila in Chittagong. Two new institutes, two new faculty will be opened at the campus. 180 crore taka will be spent to construct the campus.

Pet hospital, research and training institute

It is the country's first-ever pet hospital. Here, Teaching and Training Pet Hospital and Research Centre provides hands-on training to interns and postgraduate veterinary doctors.

Degrees offered

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Poultry Research and Training Center (PRTC)

The Poultry Research and Training Centre has been established on 11 March 2008 with the financial support from Agricultural Sector Programme Support II of Danida at the Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University campus, within the legal framework of the university Act 2006. PRTC is an autonomous institution, in accordance with the provision of the university Act 16 July 2006. In recent years, Dr. Muhammad Kabirul Islam Khan, from Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, was invented a new breed crossed between Faomi and indigenous chicken which will grow rapidly as Faomi but the taste of the meat will as the indigenous chicken.

One Health Institute

Institute of Coastal Biodiversity, Marine Fisheries and wildlife conservation

This institution located at Cox's Bazar outreach campus of the university.

Specialty

The undergraduate study programme, with a compulsory one-year internship in different placements which was inaugurated by this university, is a major breakthrough in the veterinary education policy in Bangladesh. Since its establishment students are regularly doing their internship at all Government research center and hospital as well as Madras veterinary college under TANUVAS, India which was first aboard-undergraduate internship program of public universities in Bangladesh, recently the university has started to send their student for doing an internship at Tufts University, USA and several universities of Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, Japan, India. The university is thought to be one of the fastest-growing universities in the country, particularly for its scientific research efforts.
University authorities have always focused on research, which in turn organizes International Internships seminar, International Scientific Conference every year where reputed scientists from several countries come and share their knowledge with the students. It is the only public university of Bangladesh which has three research institutes in three separate zones.
A significant number of its alumni are studying in abroad and published research findings in different prestigious journals and achieved International Award.
They are going to lead a better position in every government and private sector of Veterinary, Fisheries and Food industry in Bangladesh.

Research, Training and Extension (R&D)

As part of its aim to build it as a centre of excellence in teaching and research, CVASU has been working and looking forward to developing and focusing research activities and resources to support and keeping its faculty members at the forefront of new technologies and development in the field of Veterinary and fisheries education quality enhancement, Livestock and Fisheries development and applied policy support, feed and feed technological innovation, application of advanced molecular techniques in disease diagnosis, Industry-Institute partnership and multidisciplinary research.
Primarily CVASU aims to project their research activities upon the multidisciplinary areas of Animal health, Production and Veterinary extension services. The faculty members are, therefore, grouped into 3 basic research group including Small Animal and poultry health and production, Large Animal health and production and a Socioeconomic group to assist the other two groups in executing, analysing and extension of their research findings. However, at this stage of development, a number of the national and international funded research project have completed funded by Higher Education Link, UK, British Council, PLDP, BARC, and various research projects are ongoing funded by Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project by UGC, BARC, RFLDC through DANIDA, BAS-USDA, FAO.

Campus Life

Students from all across Bangladesh and abroad study at CVASU. The campus has separate modern hostels for men and women. All of the students have enough residential accommodation facilities. The campus provides indoor and outdoor recreation facilities including sports ground.
Students have enough interest and competence in sports, debate, photography, writing, cultural and various recreational activities.

Hall

There are two halls for the students. One is for female and the other is for male: