Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University

Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU)
হাজী মোহাম্মদ দানেশ বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
Established 1979 (University Started 11 September 1999)
Type Public, coeducational
Chancellor Abdul Hamid, Honorable President
Vice-Chancellor Professor Md. Ruhul Amin
Dean 7
Academic staff
 491
Students 5500
Undergraduates 5000
Postgraduates 450
50
Location Dinajpur,  Bangladesh
Campus Rural 130 acres
Nickname HSTU
Affiliations University Grants Commission
Website http://www.hstu.ac.bd

Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University is a government-financed public university of Bangladesh. It's shortly called HSTU and Locally known as Hajee Danesh University. It's situated between 10(Dosh)mile & Dinajpur city which place known as Basherhat. Besides HSTU a sports school named BKSP(Dinajpur) which also established by government of Bangladesh.

In 2015 more than 100 foreign students come from five country.

History

In 1979 Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University was established as an Agricultural Extension Training Institute (AETI) to award a three-year diploma in agriculture. The AETI was later upgraded to Hajee Mohammad Danesh Agricultural College in 1988 having an affiliation from the Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh. Then the college was upgraded to the status of a university renaming it as Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University on 11 September 1999.

Hajee Mohammad Danesh

Hajee Mohammad Danesh (1900-1986) was a peasant leader and politician. He was born in Sultanpur village in Dinajpur district. Having obtained his M.A. in History from Aligarh Muslim University in 1931 and B.L. degree in 1932. In the 1930s, Danesh became active in the communist organisations of Bengal, especially the Bengal provincial organisation of the Communist Party of India.[1] He was arrested twice in 1938 by the government of Bengal for his participation in the Tebhaga movement, an agitation in northern Bengal against zamindars landlords for landless peasants and share-croppers who sought a greater share of the yield, most of which was surrendered to the zamindars.[1][2] Danesh was one of the few Muslim communist leaders of the struggle, and worked to mobilise the Muslim peasantry in favor of the movement.[3] In 1945, he joined the All India Muslim League, but was later expelled for his participation in the continuing Tebagha movement, and re-arrested by the Bengal government in 1946.After the partition of India and Bengal in 1947, Danesh remained in his home district of Dinajpur, which fell in Muslim-majority East Bengal, which became part of the newly created Muslim state of Pakistan. He died in Dhaka on 28 June 1986.

Academics

The university offers 18 under-graduate degrees under seven faculties along with several post-graduate and doctoral courses. These are

1. Faculty of Postgraduate Studies


2. Faculty of Engineering

Faculty Of Engineering


3. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering


4.Faculty of Business Studies


5.Faculty of Agriculture


6.Faculty of Fisheres


7.Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Science


8.Faculty of Science

Administrative Building,HSTU,Dinajpur.
Side view of administrative building
Tajuddin Ahmed Hall,HSTU,Dinajpur
One of the academic buildings
Saheed Minar at HSTU
Inner side of Administrative building
The campus
Map of Bangladesh in the campus
A gate of the university
Library building
Dormitory 2

Faculties

There are seven faculties in HSTU with 43 departments:

Faculty of Engineering:

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering:

Faculty of Business Studies:

Faculty of Agriculture:


Faculty of Fisheries:

Faculty of Veterinary & Animal Science:

Faculty of Science


Faculty Of Post Graduate Studies

Institute

Science For advanced RESEARCH the Institute of Research and Training (IRT) has been established.

Student life

Halls of residence

Students admitted to the faculties reside in or are attached to a hall of residence. The university has five halls of residence: three for male students and two for females. Halls are headed by a provost (called Hall Super) who is assisted by house tutors and assistant house tutors. The administration of a dormitory is controlled by a Hall President and his/her assistants.

1. Dormitory -1 (Shekh Rasel Hall), 2. Dormitory -2 (Shaheed Rastrapati Ziaur Rahman Hall), 3. Dormitory -4 (Tajuddin Ahmed Hall) &

1. Dormitory -3(Shekh Fajilatunnesa Mujib Hall), & 2. Ladies Hall Extension -1(Ivy Rahman Hall), 3. Ladies Hall Extension -2(Pritilota Hall)

★An extended area for foreign students.

Student organizations

Students at HSTU are involved in extra-curricular activities. The student organizations are:

Sports and extracurricular activities

The university organizes sports and other extracurricular and recreational activities. It provides intramural and extramural programmes.

Internal and external programmes (games and sports)

The directorate organizes and conducts interdepartmental and inter-hall tournaments, individual hall athletics, university athletics, and inter-university games and sports. Students participate in national championships in games and sports for which training and coaching are offered.

Library

The university Library contains a collection of more than 25,000 volumes, including bound volumes of periodicals. It subscribes to over 50 foreign journals. A complete automation of the system is in the process. The Confined Section of the library contains rare books.

Medical centre

The medical centre offers free medical service to students, teachers, staff and family members of the teachers and staff. The centre provides service round-the-clock, seven-days-a-week, with four doctors with ambulance facility. The centre has 12 bed accommodation so that patients suffering from contagious diseases may be cared for in isolation.

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Coordinates: 25°41′49″N 88°39′06″E / 25.6970°N 88.6517°E