Comilla Victoria College

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Comilla Victoria College

Established:	1899
Type:	Public
Faculty:	125
Students:	11,000+
Location:	Comilla, Bangladesh
Campus:	Urban

Comilla Victoria College is a renowned college in Comilla, Bangladesh.

1 History
2 Current activities
3 Notable alumni
4 References
5 External Links

[edit] History

The college was founded by Roy Bahadur Ananda Chandra Roy in 1899 and named after Queen Victoria.^[1] Mr. Satyandra Nath Basu was its first principal.

Until 1947, the college was affiliated to Calcutta University. Between 1925 and 1947 it offered three-year honours programmes in English, Mathematics, Sanskrit, Politics, Economics and Arabic. The college introduced Bachelor of Science courses in 1942 and Bachelor of Commerce courses in 1956. Honours courses in Political Science, Physics, Chemistry, Accounting and Management were introduced in 1971-72. Masters Programme in Bangla and Economics started in 1973.

In 1962-63, the degree section of the college was shifted to its new campus at Dharmapur, which is three kilometers away from the old campus at Ranir Dighi. The old campus now houses the offices of the principal and vice-principal, teachers' room, principal's residence, gymnasium, auditorium, library, and science laboratories. The new campus has four new buildings and these are used for academic activities. The college was nationalised in 1968. Many of the students fought in the country's war of independence. In 1984-85, it became a postgraduate college. In 1996, the college had honours courses in 16 subjects.

[edit] Current activities

At present, the college has 11,000 students and 125 teachers, of whom 20 are women. It has five dormitories - four for boys and one for girls. About one thousand students reside in these dormitories.

[edit] Notable alumni

The famous bangladeshi businessman, Abdul Awal Mintu, passed HSC exam from this institute in 1966 in science group.^[2] He is the former FBCCI^[3] president of Bangladesh.