| East West University | ||
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| Motto | "Excellence in Education" | |
| Established | 1996 | |
| Type | Private, Coeducational | |
| Chancellor | H. E. President Zillur Rahman | |
| President | Dr. Mohammed Farashuddin | |
| Vice-Chancellor | Professor Ahmed Shafee | |
| Academic staff | 189 | |
| Students | 6162 | |
| Undergraduates | 4794(male:3591,female:1203) | |
| Postgraduates | 1368(male:1052,female:316) | |
| Location | Dhaka, Bangladesh | |
| Campus | 43, Mohakhali, Dhaka | |
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| Nickname | EWU | |
| Affiliations | University Grants Commission | |
| Website | http://www.ewubd.edu | |
East West University (Bengali: ইস্টওয়েস্ট বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) (EWU) is a private university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was established in 1996 by the Private University Act, 1992[1] by Dr. Mohammed Farashuddin.[2] It features a centralized campus in Mohakhali.
In 2007, Webometrics ranked EWU third in all universities of Bangladesh (first among private universities in Bangladesh) and 64th in the Indian subcontinent in their World Universities Ranking[3][4] based on web visibility of electronic publication, scientific results and international activities.[5]
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The culture of private universities in Bangladesh started in the early 1990s. During that period, the government and the intellectual and civil society in Bangladesh started to feel that the existing public universities were not sufficient to meet the high, constantly increasing demand for tertiary education in the country. Moreover, to maintain their quality of education, most of the reputed public universities in Bangladesh kept themselves extremely selective and as a result each year a large number of students failed to get admitted into higher educational institutions. These issues led the government to permit the establishment of private universities, and on 9 August 1992, the Private University Act (Act 34) 1992 was passed. Within the next five years, a good number of private universities were established and started to perform successfully, and East West University has been one of them.
East West University was established in 1996 as a non-profit organization. This university is the first major project of the Progoti Foundation for Education and Development (PFED), a non-profit, non-political, charitable organization maintained by a group of academics, business leaders, professionals and education enthusiasts led by Dr. Mohammed Farashuddin, prominent economist and former governor of Bangladesh Bank. The university was launched in September 1996 with 6 faculty members and 20 students in three programs, BBA, BSc in Computer Science and BA in English at the present campus of 45, Mohakhali Commercial Area, Dhaka. Currently, the university maintains a good number of slightly over six thousands students with a centralized campus in Mohakhali though it plans to shift to its permanent campus in Aftab Nagar near Banosri[6] by the end of 2011.
East West University maintains a centralized campus consisting of six multi-storied buildings located at the heart of Mohakhali, one of the busiest commercial spot of Dhaka.
East West University is organized into three faculties. Each faculty is again divided into different departments. A Dean is the head of each faculty while departments are headed by the respective department Chairpersons. Department of Business Administration is the largest and one of the oldest departments of the university. Department of Computer Science and Engineering (established as Department of Computer Science) and Department of English are other two founding departments performing since 1996. Social Science department is the only department that does not offer any degree program rather it works as a supportive department for other existing degree programs.
Academic Structure
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Academic Bunting and Tassel Color[7]
| Deep Blue | University |
| Lilac | Department of English |
| Sea Green | Department of Business Administration |
| Blue | Department of Social Science |
| Olive Green | Department of Economics |
| Orange | Department of Pharmacy |
| Golden Yellow | Department of Computer Science & Engineering |
| Perl White | Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Indigo | Department of Electronic and Comm. Engineering |
EWU is modeled on North American Open Credit systems. It maintains tri-semester year with an exception of Department of Pharmacy which maintains a bi-semester year. EWU semesters are as follow[8]:
Currently EWU offers Bachelor of Arts (BA) for English graduate, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) for Business graduate and Bachelor of Social Science (BSS) for Economics graduate. There is also an opportunity to achieve degrees in both Business and Economics together in the form of double major. University is offering Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) for Engineering and Systems Science (e.g. Computer Science) graduate and Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Phrm) for Pharmacy graduate. The B.Sc. in EEE program at East West University has recently been granted accreditation from the Board of Accreditation for Engineering & Technical Education (BAETE). In post-graduate level EWU is offering Master of Business Administration (MBA) for business, Master of Arts (MA) for humanities and Master of Science (MS) for Science and Engineering, Master of Pharmacy (M.Phrm) for Pharmacy. EWU's B.Phrm and M.Phrm programs are accredited by the Pharmacy Counsel of Bangladesh. EWU's most of the degrees, specially business and engineering degrees are transferable to some North American, European and Australasian universities where it maintains formal collaboration with them[9][10].
EWU graduates are evaluated on Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) on a scale of 0.00 to 4.00 point. In addition, university also classifies students into three classes based on their earned CGPA[11]. These are as follow:
East West University also provides following special awards[12] to its outstanding students.
East West University has a library covering four floors of the Foundation Building and approximately ten thousand five hundred square feet in area[13]. All the floors have specialty in terms of study space, special corner, maps and journal area, photocopy corner, database search corner, user friendly newspaper display section and convenient communication systems. The Library has a pigeonhole area with a capacity of supporting 450 users at a time and every day around 2,200 users visit this library. Library contains 21,713 copy books, subscription of 135 international and national journals (hardcopy), 3,293 online journals on its database, subscription of 16 national daily newspapers and around 1,500 CD-ROMs and audio cassettes[14].
EWU is providing well equipped laboratory facilities for its different engineering and science disciplines. In addition to those, university is also providing seven computer laboratories with a local network of 533 PCs and personal VSAT services[15]. Universities laboratories are shared as follow[16]:
East West University provides a wide range of scholarship starting from full funding to partial tuition weavers. Each semester top 10% students of each batch having a CGPA of 3.97 or above are awarded EWU Merit Scholarships which worth 90,000 BDT in undergraduate level and 75,000 BDT in postgraduate level. All other students from the Dean's List are also eligible to receive Medha Lalon Fund Scholarship ranging from 500,000 BDT to 25,000 BDT. Besides, there are 28 directorial scholarships (25,20,000 BDT) are available each year for the meritorious students with exceptional case.
Each semester university provides a large number of Financial Aids. Student facing financial difficulties (with a CGPA of 3.7 and above,those student whole complete at least 30 credits last three semester) can apply with proper evidence only once a year for this support. It varies from 18,000 BDT to 35,000 BDT. Apart from this support, EWU provides 50% tuition weaver for any one of a sibling pair studying simultaneously in the university which worth around 45,000 BDT per year. Besides, it maintains a low tuition fees rate (BDT 3,800 per credit) compare to other leading private universities in Bangladesh.
East West University has its own resourceful Center for Research and Training (EWUCRT). EWU has a growing research culture at all of its departments. The primary objective of the center is to create knowledge through academic and applied research and disseminate acquired knowledge through training and publication. CRT operates through a Research Committee composed of representatives from the Board, Deans and Chairs of the Academic Department. The current Chairperson of the Center is Dr. Rafiqul Huda Chaudhury and the current Executive Director is Dr. Bijoy P. Barua. Link of EWUCRT publication is, http://www.ewubd.edu/ewu/showDocument.php?documentid=1118 CRT publishes the EWU Journal, a bi-annual publication of multi-disciplinary research papers following a rigorous process of strict reviews. CRT also publishes Working Papers, Occasional Papers and Annual Research Abstracts to publicize and record the academic contributions of EWU. Faculty members and senior students of the university produce a good number of academic papers each year and publish them on different journals and conference proceedings.
In addition, CRT works with government and private institutions at national and international levels to facilitate academic exchanges.
Some Backgrounds of EWUCRT are, in the year 2002 EWU organized International Conference on Computer and Information Technology which is a series of Computer Science and Information Technology based conference is being hosted in Bangladesh since 1997 by a different university each year.[17] EWU is a member of Trade Knowledge Network[18], a collaboration of research institutions in developed and developing countries located in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas[19] and also active in the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economists (SANDEE)[20]. Dr A.K. Enamul Haque, Professor of Economics is the currently member of the Management and Advisory Committee of SANDEE[21]. In 2006, EWU faculty members had 39 appearances in international journals and conferences[22]. Besides these, University regularly provide financial support through a faculty research program to promote research culture in the campus[23].
Now, many Ex-EWU students are currently working as a researcher or doing their higher studies on research in world recognized Universities and Research Institutes.
East West University has a growing but strong culture of student extracurricular activities. Under the supervision of sixteen wide range clubs, students of this university use to take part in different competitions and exhibitions starting from cultural and debating activities to intellectual programming and software developing task. EWU Debating Club with a very rare exception, regularly participates in World Universities Debating Championship and United Asian Debating Championships and currently maintains 146th world rank according to World Debate website[24]. Last year EWU Debating Club won the championship title in 18th Prime Bank - NDDC National Debate Championship 2006 (Inter University - Bangla) and became runner's up in the same event's English debate[25][26]. This year they became runner's up in 1st UU Inter University Debating Championship (Bengali IV)[27].
In 2008, a team from East West University, named Dreams of Twilight, qualified for ACM ICPC World Finals that was hosted by University of Alberta, Canada. 100 universities from all over the world qualified for the event. A total of 9000 teams competed for the ticket to the final event[28].
EWU Programming club became 4th in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest held at Coimbatore, India and 12th at Kanpur, India in 2006. Other clubs are also taking part in different national level events.
EWU Club List
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