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Bangladesh
University
of
Engineering
and
Technology (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ
প্রকৌশল
বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়়, [baŋlad̪eʃ
prokowʃɔl
biʃʃobid̪d̪alɔe̯]),
commonly
known
as BUET (pronounced [bue̯eʈ]; Bengali: বুয়েট),
is
a public
university in Bangladesh,
which
focuses
on
the
study
of engineering and architecture.[2] Founded
in
1912,
it
is
the
oldest
institution
for
the
study
of
engineering,
architecture
and urban
planning in
Bangladesh.[3] It
enrolls
about
10,000
students.The
university
is
ranked
2nd
on
the
Bangladesh
University
Ranking
2017 [4]
Every
year,
around
1055
students
get
accepted
to
their undergraduate programs
to
study
engineering,
architecture,
and
urban
planning.
Of
the
10,000
candidates
selected
to
write
the
undergraduate
admission
test
from
an
initial
application
pool
of
over
10,000
applicants,
only
about
the
top
10%
are
admitted.
Around
1000
graduate
students
are
accepted
into
their Mastersand PhD programmes
on
an
annual
basis.
The
total
number
of
teachers
is
around
600.
With
the
construction
of
new
academic
buildings,
an
auditorium
complex,
and
halls
of
residence,
the
university
has
continued
to
expand
over
the
last
three
decades.
BUET
has
been
ranked
135th
among
the Asian
universities in
the
2018
edition
of QS
World
University
Rankings.[5]
Dacca
Survey
School
was
established
in
1876
as
a survey school
at
Nalgola,
west
of
the
current Sir
Salimullah
Medical
College campus,
in Old
Dhakaby
the
then
Government
of Bengal under British
Raj.[6] It
offered
a
survey
course
of
two
years
to
train land
surveyors,
at
the
end
of
which
students
competed
at
the
Sub-Overseer's
examination.[7]According
to
a
report
on
public
instruction
in
Bengal,
on
31
March
1903,
Dacca
Survey
School
had
117
students
of
which
103
were
Hindus
and
14
were
Muslims.[8] In
1908,
the
school
started
to
offer
diploma
degrees.[9] Khwaja
Ahsanullah,
a
philanthropist
and
member
of
the Dhaka
Nawab
Family,
endowed
donations
for
developing
the
survey
school.
After
his
death
in
1901,
his
son,
the
then
Nawab
of
Dhaka, Khwaja
Salimullah released
112,000 rupees grant
in
1902
in
accordance.[10] As
an
acknowledgement
of
this
contribution,
the
school
was
renamed
to
Ahsanullah
School
of
Engineering.
The
school
offered
three-year
long diplomacourses
in civil
engineering, electrical
engineeringand mechanical
engineering.
In
1912,
the
university
was
moved
to
its
present
premises.[3] A.
K.
Fazlul
Huq,
the
then Prime
Minister
of
Bengal,
appointed Hakim
Ali as
the
principal
of
the
school
in
1938.[9] After
the partition
of
India in
1947,
the
school
was
upgraded
to
Ahsanullah
Engineering
College,
as
a
Faculty
of
Engineering
under
the University
of
Dhaka,
offering
four-year bachelor'scourse
in
Civil,
Electrical,
Mechanical, Chemicaland Metallurgical
engineering.[3] In
1948,
the
Government
of East
Pakistan granted
recognition
to
the
engineering
college.
Ali
became
the
first
principal
of
the
college.[9] In
1951, TH
Mathewmanwas
appointed
the
next
principal. M.
A.
Rashidsucceeded
him
in
1954
as
the
first
Bengali
principal
of
the
college[11] and
held
the
post
until
1960.[12] In
1956,
a
new
course
curriculum
and
the semester
system were
introduced
at
the
college.[9]
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