Jagannath University is a government-financed public university in Sadarghat, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It is one of the most famous university in Bangladesh. Jagannath University is in the southern part of Dhaka city near the River Buriganga.
History
The university has a history that started in 1858 when Dhaka Brahma School was founded by Dinanath Sen, Prabhaticharan Roy, Anathbandhu Mallik and Brajasundar Kaitra. The name Jagannath School was given by, the Zamindar of Baliati in Manikganj, who took over the school in 1872 and renamed it after his father. In 1884, it was raised to a second grade college. Law was one of the first courses introduced. A common management committee administered the school and college until 1887, when the school section was separated to form the independent Kishore Jubilee School, now known as K. L. Jubilee School. The administration of the college was transferred to a board of trustees in 1907. In the following year, it became a first grade college. The college started with 48 students. In five years, the roll rose to 396. In 1910, Raja Manmath Roy Chowdhury, the Zamindar of Santosh, Tangail, affiliated the Pramath-Manmath College of Tangail with Jagannath College. With the establishment of the University of Dhaka in 1921, it stopped admission to degree courses and was renamed Jagannath Intermediate College. This status was changed after 28 years in 1949, when it reopened degree classes. The college was taken over by the government in 1968. Jagannath College opened honours and masters programmes in 1975. That year the government once again took over and upgraded it into a postgraduate college. In 1982, the college closed its programmes at the intermediate level. It introduced evening shifts in 1992. It was transformed into Jagannath University in 2005 by passage in the national parliament of the Jagannath University Act-2005.
Academics
As a university ranked A+ grade by the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, Jagannath University has 36 departments under seven faculties. Every department follows the semester system. there are 960 teachers and 17,134 students in Honors, Masters, M.Phil and PhD programmes.
Faculties
There are six faculties, 36 departments, and two institutes at Jagannath University. , at the heart of the campus
The teachers and students of the then college took active part in the Language Movement of the early 1950s, the mass movements of the 1960s and the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971.
In 2011–2012, Jagannath University made it into the list of "Top World Universities" by the ranking agency Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds, UK. Out of over 30,000 universities around the world, JnU was placed as 2204.
