University Of Chittagong

The University of Chittagong (Chittagong University) (Bangla: চট্টগ্রাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) 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. The University of Chittagong is considerably the best university of the country for the students of law. It is the only university in Bangladesh that has an individual faculty for law. Chittagong University is the country's largest university in terms of the area it occupies (1257.82 acres)[Source: Wikipedia]