National University, Bangladesh

Largest university in Bangladesh by enrolment; Wikipedia cites second-largest in the world (3,425,832 total students: 1,755,256 undergraduate, 334,653 postgraduate, 184 doctoral, 7,048 other). Faculty count of 159,375 and student count are aggregates across all 2,257 affiliated institutions, not NU's own direct staff. Budget figure Tk 690.17 crore (FY 2025-26) is NU's own institutional budget approved by its Senate on June 28, 2025; this is separate from the much larger aggregate expenditure across affiliated colleges. annual_budget_bdt stored as integer in BDT (690 crore = 6,900,000,000; 690.17 crore = 69,017,470,000 approx). Pro-VC Nurul Islam left on March 16, 2026 to become DCU VC; Lutfor Rahman confirmed active as Pro-VC at ACCA MoU signing (April 7, 2026) and admission result press conference (May 3, 2026). Registrar name not publicly identified in sources found; field left null. VC Amanullah was excluded from both the March 16, 2026 (7-university) and May 14, 2026 (11-university) VC reshuffle batches. DCU ordinance (Feb 2026) transferred seven large Dhaka government colleges from National University affiliation; these colleges previously contributed approximately 200,000 students to NU's total. The student_count of 3,425,832 from Wikipedia may therefore overstate the post-DCU separation figure but no revised official count has been published as of 2026-05-18. campus_count set to 1 for NU's own Gazipur headquarters campus (the 2,257 colleges are affiliated institutions, not NU campuses). ugc_recognized confirmed via UGC university detail page (http://ugc-universities.gov.bd/university-detail/52).