Kishoreganj University
Profile
- Ownership
- public
- Vice-Chancellor
- Prof. Dr. Dilip Kumar Barua
- Students
- n/a
- Faculty
- n/a
- Annual budget
- n/a
- Established
- 2020
- District
- Kishoreganj
Expanding STEM laboratory facilities and strengthening institutional research output at Kishoreganj University under UGC guidelines.
Recent activity
- 2026-06-18 academic_council Academic Council of Kishoreganj University 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
established_year set to 2020 (Act No. 17 of 2020 passed September 15, 2020; first academic session 2021-22). The task brief noted a possible 2018 legal basis, but bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd confirms the Act is 2020, not 2018. student_count set null: no verified current enrolment figure found in public sources; initial intake was 120 (4 departments x 30) in 2021-22, but cumulative enrolment is not published. faculty_count set null: no verified figure in public sources. annual_budget_bdt set null: no public budget figure found for any fiscal year. vc_since is October 17, 2024, the date of the Ministry of Education appointment notification per jagonews24.com/campus/news/975577. Founding VC Z M Parvez Sazzad (appointed January 27, 2021) is no longer in post. Pro-VC Dr. Md. Safiqul Islam and Treasurer Md. Iman Ali confirmed on kiu.ac.bd homepage as of May 2026. Registrar Naila Yasmin confirmed in August 2025 news report (quoted by name in jagonews24 shutdown story). The university is fully operational (UGC ID 218, running GST admissions) but physically constrained: permanent campus at Boulai Union (103.87 acres) has not been built; all academic activity is at Gurudayal Govt. College, Kishoreganj Sadar. The 90-day window (February 17 to May 18, 2026) contains only routine administrative notices; the significant events (renaming and protest) fall outside this window but are recorded as notable_events for context. verification_status is partial because student_count, faculty_count, and budget are unverifiable from public sources, and the exact resolution of the August 2025 student shutdown is unknown.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishoreganj_University
- https://kiu.ac.bd
- https://kiu.ac.bd/about
- https://kiu.ac.bd/vc/1
- https://kiu.ac.bd/allnotices/0
- https://admission.kiu.ac.bd/
- http://www.ugc-universities.gov.bd/university-detail/218
- http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-1339.html
- https://www.jagonews24.com/campus/news/975577
- https://www.daily-sun.com/post/532294
- https://rtvonline.com/english/amp/bangladesh/national/266950
- https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/education/389902/complete-shutdown-at-kishoreganj-university-over
- https://dailynewnation.com/kishoreganj-university-students-protest/