| Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU) | |
|---|---|
| Established | 26 February,2002 |
| Type | public |
| Chancellor | President Mohammad Zillur Rahman |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof Dr Syed Sakhawat Husain |
| Students | 1300 |
| Location | , Patuakhali, Bangladesh |
| Nickname | PSTU |
| Affiliations | Barisal Govt.veterinary College, Babugonj, Barisal. |
| Website | http://www.pstu.ac.bd/ |
Patuakhali Science and Technology University (Bengali: পটুয়াখালী বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a government financed public university in Patuakhali, Bangladesh. PSTU has given affiliation to the Barisal Government Veterinary College as its constituent faculty.[1] This is the only university in Barisal division.
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The Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU) formally started functioning after promulgation of government gazette notification on 26 February 2002 with the campus of former Patuakhali Agricultural College as its nucleus. The PSTU started with the ongoing Faculty of Agriculture offering four-year B.Sc.Ag(Hons.) degrees as its primary focus. The University has a mandate of widening its scope of education expansion in conformity to the education policy of the national government, particularity in the information communication technology (ICT) and other demand-driven disciplines to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Against this backdrop the PSTU has planned to start two more new faculties: the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Business Administration and Management (BAM). In the meantime, it has given affiliation to the Barisal Government Veterinary College as its constituent faculty. It plans to offer degree programs in the fields of fisheries, food and nutrition and social sciences in the coming years.
The Patuakhali Science and Technology University was meta-morphically developed at the private initiative of the local people through the establishment of a higher secondary institute in 1972 as a private college. It was then turned to Patuakhali Agricultural College under the affiliation of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh in 1979 with the mandatory objectives of producing agricultural graduates offering the B.Sc.Ag.(Hons.) degree. The college was nationalized on 1 February 1985 and was placed under the administrative control of the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Ministry of Agricultural together with BAU affiliation.
The Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh launched a project of establishing a Science and Technology University in the former greater districts where no such universities exist. That project advocated the transformation of Patuakhali Agricultural College into the full-fledged Patuakhali Science and Technology University that came into being through a Parliamentary Act passed on 12 July 2001.
The PSTU campus is at Dumki Upazila under Patuakhali district. It is about 15 kilometers north from Patuakhali district town and can easily be reached by public transportation.
It has compact campus with halls of residence within walking distance of the academic building. At present the campus occupies 72 acres (290,000 m2) of land including 37.00 acres (149,700 m2) agricultural research farm. With a view to establishing a Fisheries Faculty under this university it has a plan to acquire 800 acres (3.2 km2) of land at Kuakata, the southernmost tourist resort of Bangladesh. This faculty will conduct research on various exotic species of fishes covering both inland and marine fisheries apart from
PSTU started with four faculties. Today it has: