North South University

North South University
নর্থ সাউথ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
Motto Center of Excellence in Higher Education
Type Private University
Established 1992
Chancellor Abdul Hamid, President of Bangladesh
Vice-Chancellor Atiqul Islam
Academic staff
 907 (including 449 impermanent/adjunct faculty)
Students 13,990[1]
Undergraduates 12,068
Postgraduates 1,922
Location Dhaka, Bangladesh
23°47′38″N 90°24′13″E / 23.794°N 90.4035°E / 23.794; 90.4035Coordinates: 23°47′38″N 90°24′13″E / 23.794°N 90.4035°E / 23.794; 90.4035
Campus Urban, 665,000 sqft
Colors Blue and white         
Nickname NSU
Affiliations University Grants Commission, Bangladesh
Website northsouth.edu

North South University (Bengali: নর্থসাউথ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) or NSU is the first private university of Bangladesh.[2] The government of Bangladesh approved the establishment of North South University in 1992 under the Private University Act (PUA) 1992 (now replaced by PUA 2010). The university was formally inaugurated on February 10, 1993 by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

NSU has the authority, under its Charter, to impart instruction and confer undergraduate and graduate degrees in all branches of arts, business and sciences, including engineering, agriculture, law and medicine. It also has the authority to grant diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions. Currently, NSU offers bachelor's and master's degrees in 29 subjects (15 bachelor's degrees and 14 master's degrees). Additional programs including PhD in different subjects are under preparation.

Campus

SAC and Admin Building
SAC and Admin Building
Bridge between SAC and NAC
Bridge between SAC and NAC

The university's campus is at Bashundhara in Dhaka. The foundation of the campus was laid on January 30, 2003 by Begum Khaleda Zia.[3] Classes started in the permanent campus from June 9, 2009.[4]

This campus can serve up to 20,000 students with amenities and facilities. It contains six buildings with three basements on six acres of land having 665,000 square feet of floorspace.[5]

Administration

The Board of Trustees includes notable industrialists: M.A. Kashem (current Chairman), Azim Uddin Ahmed, M.A. Hashem, Ragib Ali, Iftekharul Alam, M.A. Awal, Abul Kashem, A.S.F Rahman and Rehana Rahman amongst others.

List of Vice-Chancellors

Library

The NSU library has six floors with over 70,000 square feet (6,500 m2) floor area on the southeastern side of the campus. It is the first fully automated university library in Bangladesh using its own library management software,[6][7] which supports RFID system, web-based online circulation system, full-text e-books and online journal article repository services. The library can accommodate over 1,200 students in its reading rooms. On average 2,000 students use the library every day.

As of August 2014, the library holds 49,500 books, 50,000 online books, 6,000 bound journals (Foreign and local) and magazines, 1,890 CD-ROM databases and books, 226 DVD and videos, 159 audio-cassettes, and other resources.[8] It subscribes to 20 local journals, 18 foreign and 19 local magazines, two foreign dailies and most of the leading national dailies published from Dhaka. The NSU library is the pioneer of subscribing online journals and MyAthens in Bangladesh. It started subscription to online journals with JSTOR, IEEE, ACM Digital library and 39 titles of online journals for the first time in 2002. After that the other libraries started subscription to online journals in the country. Now it has access to 40,000 online journals of 52 publishers including Ebsco, Emerald, Blackwell, JSTOR, ACM, Oxford University Press, Wiley, Springer, ASCE and other major databases.

Academics

The university's ten departments are organized into four schools.

Schools

  1. School of Business and Economics(Accredited By ACBSP)
    • Department of Accounting & Finance
    • Department of Economics
    • Department of Management
    • Department of Marketing & International Business
  2. School of Engineering & Physical Sciences
    • Department of Architecture
    • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Department of Mathematics and Physics
  3. School of Humanities & Social Sciences
    • Department of English & Modern Languages
    • Department of History & Philosophy
    • Department of Law
    • Department of Political Science & Sociology
  4. School of Health & Life Sciences
    • Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology
    • Department of Environmental Science and Management
    • Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    • Department of Public Health

North South University is accredited by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The university's School of Business and Economics was accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) in November 2015.[9]

Institutes

NSU has four institutes and one center:

Student activity clubs

Social Services Club winter clothes distribution

International Organizations

NSU Sports & Fitness Center

NSU Sports & Fitness Center with Multipurpose Gym, Basketball Court & Gallery located at student amenities area for students, faculty and staff members. The Sports & Fitness Center are staffed with trained Fitness Associates and Fitness Supervisors to ensure the safety of participants and assist in basic exercise selection or performing exercise that may need to be spotted.[21]

Publications

The university publishes a journal called Panini.[22]

Controversies

Corruption allegation

In 2012, University Grants Commission probe body has found a numerous instances of corruption of the universities' trustee board's chairman M Shahjahan. As a result, the education ministry dissolved the trustee board.[23] Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician Abul Hashem, one of the trustee members, was charged with corruption by Anti Corruption Commission during caretaker government.[24]

Students involved militancy

In 2016, North South University came under government surveillance after some of its students and faculties were found to have links with militant activities.[25] Students of the university were involved with at least four militant attacks in Bangladesh.[26][27][28] The University Grants Commission has suggested several measures to curb student involvement with militant groups. These include attendance tracking, online monitoring by parents and guardians of course loads and grades, and greater student participation in university social activities.[29]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ugc.gov.bd/uploads/2015/annualreport/Part-1-2.zip
  2. ↑ "Private Higher Education in Bangladesh, UNESCO Research Paper" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-03-07.
  3. ↑ "New Campus Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony". Retrieved 2010-03-02.
  4. ↑ "NSU commences classes at the new campus". Retrieved 2010-03-02.
  5. ↑ "NSU holds Fall 2009 orientation Ceremony at its own campus". Retrieved 2010-03-02.
  6. ↑ "Use of ICT in Libraries: An Empirical Study of Selected Libraries in Bangladesh". Retrieved 2010-03-07.
  7. ↑ "Library Automation in Bangladesh: The Dhaka University Library Experiences". Retrieved 2010-03-07.
  8. ↑ NSU Library. "Library At a glance". Retrieved 2010-03-02.
  9. ↑ "NSU Business School achieved American accreditation". Daily Sun. Dhaka. 28 November 2015.
  10. ↑ "Confucius Institute in Bangladesh cements relations". Retrieved 2010-03-01.
  11. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/NSUSS/
  12. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/nsussc/
  13. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/nsucdc/
  14. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/nsuec/
  15. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/englishclubnsu/
  16. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/nsucc/
  17. ↑ http://www.nsuyes.com/NSU
  18. ↑ http://www.ieeensu.org/
  19. ↑ http://www.ieee.org/
  20. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/ieeensu/
  21. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/NorthSouthUniversity/photos/pb.212068485473540.-2207520000.1474487526./1387620857918291/?type=3&theater
  22. ↑ PANINI. "Panini: NSU STUDIES IN LANGUAGE & LITERATURE". Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  23. ↑ "UGC Found NSU Chairman Guilty of Irregularities & Corruption". Eduicon. Eduicon. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  24. ↑ Ali, Imran (30 July 2016). "NSU, what's going on?". The Asian Age. The Asian Age. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  25. ↑ "'Govt alert about goings-on in North South University, says Nahid'". bdnews24.com. July 10, 2016.
  26. ↑ "'Bangladesh Says It Now Knows Who's Killing the Bloggers'". The New York Times. June 8, 2016.
  27. ↑ "'Terrorism: UGC team visits Dhaka's North South University'". bdnews24.com. July 14, 2016.
  28. ↑ "'Killed Sholakia attacker identified as NSU student'". Dhaka Tribune. July 10, 2016.
  29. ↑ "NSU students under surveillance". Dhaka Tribune. July 15, 2016.

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