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Jagannath University is situated in the southern part of the city of
Dhaka near the Buriganga. This prestigious educational establishment
has a history of about 150 years which started in 1858 when Dhaka Brahma
School was founded in 1858 by Dinanath Sen, Prabhaticharan Roy,
Anathbandhu Mallik and Brajasundar Kaitra.
The name Jagannath school was
given by Kishorilal Chowdhury, the Zamindar of Baliadi who took over
the school in 1872 and renamed it after his father's name. In 1884, it
was raised to a second grade college. Law was one of the first courses
introduced in the college. A common management committee administered
the school and college until 1887, when the school section was separated
to form an independent school named Kishore Jubilee School. It is now
known as K L Jubilee School. The administration of the college was
transferred to a board of trustees in 1907. In the following year, it
became a first grade college.
The college started with only 48
students and in five years, the roll raised to 396. In 1910, Raja
Manmath Roy Chowdhury, the zamindar of Santosh, tangail affiliated the
Pramath-Manmath College of Tangail with Jagannath College.It was known
as the best equipped private college in Dhaka as early as 1910. With the
establishment of Dhaka University in 1921 the college had to stop
admission in Degree courses and was renamed Jagannath Intermediate
College. This status was changed after 28 years in 1949, when it
reopened Degree classes. The college was taken over by the government in
1968.
Jagannath College opened honours and masters programmes in
1975. That year the government once again took over the college and
upgraded it into a postgraduate college. In 1982, the college closed its
programmes of intermediate level.The college introduced evening shifts
in 1992.The college was transformed into the Jagannath University in
2005. At present the University has 22 departments under 4 faculties.
The faculties are Science, Arts, Business Studies and Social Science.
Now 271 teachers are engaged in providing quality education of around
27000 students. on diverse areas.
The teachers and students of
the college took active part in the Language Movement of the early
1950s, the mass movements of the 1960s and the War of Liberation of the
country in 1971. The college produced tens of thousands graduates. Many
of them have become famous at home and abroad. Noted among the alumni of
the college are sufi motahar hosen (poet), Abdul Hamid (sports
organiser and sports journalist), Bhabatosh Dutta (economist), Premendra
Mitra (writer and poet), AR Yusuf (Bar-at-Law, State Minister of
Bangladesh in early 1980s), A KMA Rouf (artist), Anisuzzaman
(educationist, researcher), and Brozen Das (swimmer, the first Indian to
swim across English Channel).
The Management of University is
striving to make this establishment as a center of excellence for
creating successful and productive citizens of Bangladesh.
