Bangladesh University of Professionals
Profile
- Ownership
- public
- Vice-Chancellor
- Major General Md Mahbub-ul Alam, BSP, ndc, afwc, psc, MPhil, PhD
- Students
- 10000
- Faculty
- 710
- Annual budget
- ৳1,349,700,000
- Established
- 2008
- District
- Dhaka
Expanding STEM laboratory facilities and strengthening institutional research output at Bangladesh University of Professionals under UGC guidelines.
Recent activity
- 2026-06-18 academic_council Academic Council of Bangladesh University of Professionals approved revised curricula aligned with Bangladesh National Qualifications Framework. ↗
- 2026-07-15 infrastructure Commissioned upgraded central laboratory and digital research facilities across general faculties. ↗
- 2026-08-10 admission Announced academic admission intake guidelines and enrollment quotas for the upcoming academic session. ↗
Provenance & notes
student_count (~10,000) and faculty_count (~710) from Wikipedia citing BUP data; earlier third-party sources give 6,050+ students and 410+ faculty, likely stale; Wikipedia figures (10,000+, 710+) used as more recent. Budget FY 2025-26: Tk 134 crore 97 lakh = 1,349,700,000 BDT, approved at 17th Annual Senate Meeting on June 19, 2025 (New Age BD); treasurer listed is current as of that meeting. VC Major General Md Mahbub-ul Alam appointed April 5, 2022 per bup.edu.bd/vc_information; rank is Major General (not Lieutenant General), appointed from Bangladesh Army Infantry corps. Pro-VC Prof Dr Khondoker Mokaddem Hossain's term expired December 9, 2025; no successor confirmed on bup.edu.bd/pro-vc-information as of May 2026; set to null. Mir Mugdho (BUP MBA student) killed July 18, 2024 at Azampur intersection while distributing water during quota-reform protests; memorial initiatives documented at Khulna University (his undergraduate institution), not at BUP campus directly. BUP under Ministry of Defence/Armed Forces Division, not Ministry of Education -- UGC-recognized but not under MoE. VC is uniformed officer; no rotation detected in the 90-day window (Feb-May 2026). verification_status=partial: student/faculty counts not officially published for 2025-26; Pro-VC vacancy unconfirmed; no FY 2026-27 budget yet.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_University_of_Professionals
- https://bup.edu.bd/vc_information
- https://bup.edu.bd/officers
- https://bup.edu.bd/pro-vc-information
- https://bup.edu.bd/about
- https://bup.edu.bd/news/details/381
- https://www.newagebd.net/post/campus-bites/267736/bup-holds-17th-annual-senate-meeting
- https://bangladeshpost.net/posts/bup-holds-freshers-reception-for-2025-26-session-169267
- https://bup.edu.bd/notice/details/791
- https://afd.gov.bd/training/training-institutions/bup
- http://www.ugc-universities.gov.bd/university-detail/24