Hey, I am T R KHAN…introducing
our campus Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, one of
the most famous agricultural university in Bangladesh. It is situated at Salna
in Gazipur district on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, 5km from Security Printing
Press and Ordinance Factory, 5km from Joydebpur Chourasta and 40km away from
Dhaka city. The campus covers an area of 187 acres of land including about 50
acres of well developed experimental area.
It is the 13th public university
established in 1998 with the act (act no.16) promulgated by the parliament of
People Republic of Bangladesh. The university was, in fact, established by
transforming the Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Agriculture (IPSA) in
1983. In 1991, IPSA started its truly course credit based MS and Ph.D. program.
In a short period IPSA was nationally and internationally recognized as the “Centre
of Excellence” for its outstanding performance in its Term based Course Credit
System of Graduate Program and Research. With the commitment of keeping its
status of excellence, BSMRAU has been continuing the former Graduate program of
IPSA. In an expansion process of the university and to meet up the demand of
quality graduate in agriculture, BSMRAU, after a decade of its successful operation
of Graduate Program, launched Undergraduate program adopting the similar term
based course credit system under the faculty of Agriculture in 2005 to offer
Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture [BS (Agri.)].After that, a new
faculty was started with the demand of time named Faculty of Fisheries as BS
program in 2009. In 2011, another faculty was started named Faculty of Veterinary
and Animal Science. The university has 19 academic departments and a unit. At
present there are about 100 faculty members, 55 officers, 115 class three
employees and 80 class four employees, where as there are about 750 students
studying in BS, MS and PhD level.
For its excellence in
agriculture, the varsity already got prestigious International IDB (Islami
Development Bank) Award in 2011. Besides, BSMRAU is admired by UGC. Eventually
it is a unique, calm, quiet and non-political campus, most suitable for
academic pursuit.