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Prime University

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Prime University
প্রাইম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
File:Prime University.png
Other name
PU
Motto...a home for rendering prime knowledge
TypePrivate
Established2002; 24 years ago (2002)
ChairmanAnwar Kamal Pasha
ChancellorPresident Mohammed Shahabuddin
Vice-ChancellorProfessor Dr Quazi Deen Mohd Khosru
Academic staff
220
Studentsc. 12,000
Location
Dhaka
,
Bangladesh

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CampusUrban
114/116 Mazar Road, Section 1, Mirpur, Dhaka 1216
Colors    Red and green
AffiliationsUniversity Grants Commission Bangladesh, Ministry of Education,Bangladesh Prime Foundation
Websitewww.primeuniversity.ac.bd
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Prime University (Bengali: প্রাইম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) or PU is a private university in Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The university was established according to the Private University Act of 1992.[1] It is affiliated with the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh. A group of educationists and philanthropists established this institute in 2002. PU is the first venture of the Prime Foundation.[2] The university has ten undergraduate and eight graduate programs offered by the five faculties.[3]

Campus

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Prime University is located at 114/116 Mazar Road, Mirpur-1, Dhaka 1216, Bangladesh. It is a 10-story building with an area of 150,000 sq ft (14,000 m2).

Former vice-chancellors

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  • Professor Dr Quazi Deen Mohd Khosru (present)[4]
  • Professor Dr Md. Jahangir Alam
  • Professor Dr M. Abdus Sobhan
  • Professor Dr Prafulla Chandra Sarker
  • Professor Dr Mesbah-Us-Saleheen

Faculties

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PU has eight departments in five faculties.

Academic programs

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PU offers the following graduate and undergraduate programs:

Bachelor's level

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Master's level

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Laboratories

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Prime University has built up its laboratories,[5] which are:

Innovation hub

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A platform consisting of university teachers, students, researchers, which have been formed with the overall supervision of Innovation Lab to expand the technology research at the university level.[6]

Library

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The Prime University Library[7] has resources like books, reports and bound journals, CD ROMs and databases, audio & video cassettes etc. Presently, there are more than 30,000 books covering liberal arts, social sciences and commerce, particularly business, management, marketing, finance, economics, computer science and engineering, telecommunication engineering, electrical & electronics engineering, history and culture, sociology as well as language courses like English, Arabic, Chinese, Korean etc. The CD ROMs contain contents of books, matters relating to the environment, history, culture, culinary arts, etc. It also has a digital library, a focused collection of digital objects that can include text, images, audio and video.

Academic semester

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  • Spring (January to June)
  • Summer (July to December)

Research center

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PU has a research center named Center for Research, Human Resource Development & Publications (CRHP).[8]

Alumni association

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The Prime University Alumni Association or PUALUMNI is located on campus.

Journals and publications

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Prime University Journal[9] is an interdisciplinary journal published in January and July of each year and is registered with National Serials Data Program, Library of Congress (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).). The journal contains research-based articles on social science, law, education, business, arts, science and technology. The first edition[10] was published in July 2007 by CRHP. It also publishes a newsletter.

Convocation

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2nd Convocation of Prime University held at BICC

Prime University held its first convocation[11] on 14 October 2008 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center. Almost 3,200 students received their degrees at that ceremony. The second was held on 24 April 2016 at the same place. This time almost 6,000 students received their degrees. The chief guest was Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid.

Footnotes

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