Asian University of Bangladesh

Asian University of Bangladesh (Bengali: এশিয়ান ইউনিভার্সিটি অফ বাংলাদেশ) or AUB is a Private, Coeducational university of Bangladesh. It was established on 4 January 1996 by the Private University Act 1992.^[1] AUB has four campuses in Uttara, Dhanmondi, Khulna and Rajshahi. The university is affiliated by University Grants Commission (Bangladesh) and managed by Asian University Trust.

History

Asian University of Bangladesh (AUB) received formal approval of the Government of the Peoples' Republic of Bangladesh on 4 January 1996 as a degree-awarding university under the Private University Act, 1992. AUB is accredited by the University Grants Commission, Bangladesh and The Government of Bangladesh. AUB is also accredited overseas.

The efforts to establish this university date back to 1990 when the idea was first mooted out by , the founder of AUB, Dr. Abul Hasan Muhammad Sadeq, to import high quality education as widely as possible from an inter-disciplinary, integrated ethico-human approach reflecting our values, heritage and principles. Efforts continued for mobilizing a pool of academic resources from experienced and committed Bangladeshi academicians attached to overseas universities. The academic programs of AUB have been prepared by experts with co-operation from reputed overseas universities to meet international standards of education.

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Faculty

• School of Business
• School of Science & Engineering
• School of Social Sciences
• School of Arts
• School of Education and Training

Department

• Department of Business Administration
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Department of Government and Politics
• Department of Sociology and Anthropology
• Department of Economics
• Department of Information Science and Library Management
• Department of English
• Department of Bengali
• Department of Islamic Studies
• Department of Islamic History and Civilization
• Department of Education and Training
• Department of Bogus boo
• Department of lalalala

Campus

The university established five campuses in Uttara, Dhanmondi, Motijheel, Rajshahi, and Khulna. Its central campus is situated at House 9, Road 5, Sector 7 of Uttara Model Town in Dhaka. The largest number of students of is here. The distance mode education programs of the university operate from this campus, and the university’s administrative activities are governed from this site.

The university gets its urban campuses at House 36, Road 27 (Old), 16 (New), Dhanmondi and at 28/1 Toyenbee Circular Road, Motijheel in Dhaka. The authority wants to expand its facilities to the north and the south of the country. In the south, the university campus is at 33 K. D. A. Avenue (Near Hotel Royal), Khulna; in the north, the university campus is at House C/691, Birsheshtha Shahid Jahangir Sarani, Talaimari, Kajla, Rajshahi.

Library

AUB has a big library consisting of about 1.00 (one) lakh books, 500 journals, 150 research reports and 1000 audiovisual materials. The main feature of the library is that, it has an Asia Foundation Corner. Asia Foundation has so far donated 5000 books and 900 audiovisual learning resources which have been kept in the corner. Besides Uttara, there is one more Asia Foundation corner at Dhanmondi Campus of the AUB. The materials received from the Asia Foundation are found extremely useful for the students and the faculty members of different disciplines of the University^[2]

Features

AUB is a leading university in Bangladesh. Its sailent include the following:

• AUB provides dual mode of education: Distance Education and On-campus Education, which is unique in Bangladesh. Dual mode of education exists mostly in developed countries.

• The academic curriculum of AUB has been developed with the help of experts from reputed universities, at home and abroad, to provide high quality education comparable with that of world-class universities.

• An International Advisory Board consisting of members from American, Canadian and Australian universities advises on the academic standard of AUB.

• In academic programs, AUB has adopted an inter-disciplinary and ethico-human approach so that the graduates of AUB are professionally sound and morally upright and equipped with multidimensional insights to face the challenges of real life in the complex world of modem times.

• AUB follows the full credit hour system that provides flexibility to students to adjust their studies according to their interests, ability, needs and desired time plan.

• AUB can reach every nook and corner of Bangladesh by its Distance mode of education and thus high quality education is accessible even to remote areas of the country including the rural poor.

• Through distance education, AUB can go beyond the boundary of Bangladesh with its high quality education, especially Asian countries and particularly to its South-Asian neighbourhood.
• It does not have any projector for lab
• It takes money from the students and provides nothing.
• The University is not recognized fully by UGC.
• Please do not get admitted here.

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International Advisors of AUB

An International council of Advisors has been formed to advise AUB in its academic programs. The council consists of academicians from different universities of Australia, Canada, Malaysia and United States of America, who have considerable personal experience in education. The honourable advisors are:

• Dr. Ian Small, Head, Distance Education Center, University of New England, Australia

• Dr. Masud Chowdhury, University College of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

• Dr. Kabir Hasan, University of New Orleans, University of New England

• Dr. Anis Chowdhury, University of Western Sydney, Australia.

• Dr. Mohammad Ansari, Athabasca University,Los Alberta, Canada.

• Dr. Mohammad Abdur Rashid, International Islamic University, Malaysia.^[4]

Overseas Linkages and Accreditation

AUB has established linkages with overseas universities for academic cooperation in education and research. Accordingly, AUB has signed memoranda of understanding with the following universities:

• University of West Florida, USA.
• Ashland University, Ohio, USA.
• University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
• University of Jordan, Jordan.
• International Islamic University, Malaysia.
• University of Yarmouk, Jordan.
• Tehran University, Iran.
• University Tun Abdul Razak(UNITAR), Malaysia.

Under an agreement, AUB students may study 50% of the courses at AUB and the remaining 50% of the courses at Ashland University, Ohio, USA., for a degree from Ashland University. Also, AUB students will be able to switch to the University of Southern Queensland, Australia., for a USQ degree with credit transfer at any point of their studies and also to University Tun Abdul Razak(UNITAR), Malaysia. with similar facilities. Credit transfer facilities are available with a number of other universities as well.

AUB is accredited by, and is a full member of APICS, which is Switzerland-based body for accreditation of universities and international cooperation in education.^[5]

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