Prime University

Prime University
প্রাইম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
Vice-Chancellor	Jahangir Alam
Academic staff	220
Students	c. 12,000
Location	Dhaka, Bangladesh; 23°47′28″N 90°20′54″E / 23.7910°N 90.3482°E
Campus	Urban; 114/116 Mazar Road, Section 1, Mirpur, Dhaka 1216
Colors	Red and green
Affiliations	University Grants Commission Bangladesh, Ministry of Education,Bangladesh Prime Foundation
Website	www.primeuniversity.edu.bd

Prime University (

Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The university was established according to the Private University Act of 1992.^[1] It is affiliated with the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh. A group of educationists and philanthropists established this institute in 2002. PU is the first venture of the Prime Foundation.^[2] The university has ten undergraduate and eight graduate programs offered by the five faculties.^[3]

Campus

Prime University is located at 114/116 Mazar Road, Mirpur-1, Dhaka 1216, Bangladesh. It is a 10-story building with an area of 150,000 sq ft (14,000 m²).

Former vice-chancellors

Md. Jahangir Alam (present)[4]
M. Abdus Sobhan
Prafulla Chandra Sarker
Mesbah-Us-Saleheen

Faculties

PU has eight departments in five faculties.

Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of
Information Technology
Faculty of
Business Studies
Faculty of
Social Science
Faculty of Law

Academic programs

PU offers the following

undergraduate

programs:

Bachelor's level

BSc in Computer science and Engineering (CSE)
BSc in
Telecommunication Engineering
(ETE)
BSc in
Electronics Engineering
(EEE)
BSc in
Civil Engineering
(CE)
Bachelor of
Business Administration
(BBA)
BA (Hons) in English
LLB
(Hons)
BA (Hons) in
Bangla
Bachelor of Education (BEd)

Master's level

Master of Business Administration Regular and Executive (MBA)
LLM (Regular)
LLM (Preli & Final)
MA in English
MA in English language Teaching (ELT)
M.A. in
English Literature
Masters of Education (MEd)

Laboratories

Prime University has built up its laboratories,^[5] which are:

Physics Lab
Chemistry Lab
Computer Lab
Software Engineering
Lab
Microprocessor Lab
Digital Logic
Lab
Measurements
Lab
Energy Conversion and Drives
Lab

Digital Signal Processing

Lab

Microwave Engineering

Lab

Fiber-optic Communication

Lab

GSM Lab

Innovation hub

A platform consisting of university teachers, students, researchers, which have been formed with the overall supervision of Innovation Lab to expand the technology research at the university level.^[6]

Library

The Prime University Library^[7] has resources like books, reports and bound journals, CD ROMs and databases, audio & video cassettes etc. Presently, there are more than 30,000 books covering liberal arts, social sciences and commerce, particularly business, management, marketing, finance, economics, computer science and engineering, telecommunication engineering, electrical & electronics engineering, history and culture, sociology as well as language courses like English, Arabic, Chinese, Korean etc. The CD ROMs contain contents of books, matters relating to the environment, history, culture, culinary arts, etc. It also has a digital library, a focused collection of digital objects that can include text, images, audio and video.

Academic semester

Spring (February to May)
Summer (June to September)
Fall (October to January)

Research center

PU has a research center named Center for Research, Human Resource Development & Publications (CRHP).^[8]

Alumni association

The Prime University Alumni Association or PUALUMNI is located on campus.

Journals and publications

Prime University Journal

ISSN 1995-5332). The journal contains research-based articles on social science, law, education, business, arts, science and technology. The first edition^[10]

was published in July 2007 by CRHP. It also publishes a newsletter.

Convocation

Prime University held its first convocation^[11] on 14 October 2008 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center. Almost 3,200 students received their degrees at that ceremony. The second was held on 24 April 2016 at the same place. This time almost 6,000 students received their degrees. The chief guest was Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid.

Footnotes

^ "Private University Act, 1992". Archived from the original on 25 April 2003. Retrieved 10 August 2007.
^ "Message from the Chairman". Prime University.
^ "Message from the Vice Chancellor". Prime University.
^ "vc".
^ "PU Student Facilities". Prime University. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^ "About Innovation Hub". Prime University.
^ "PU Library". Prime University.
^ "Prime University Journals Home". Prime University. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014.
^ "Journals Home". Prime University. Archived from the original on 21 November 2016.
^ "PU j&p". Prime University. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^ "Convocation gallery". Prime University. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

[1] "Private University Act, 1992". Archived from the original on 25 April 2003. Retrieved 10 August 2007.

[2] "Message from the Chairman". Prime University.

[3] "Message from the Vice Chancellor". Prime University.

[4] "vc".

[5] "PU Student Facilities". Prime University. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

[6] "About Innovation Hub". Prime University.

[7] "PU Library". Prime University.

[8] "Prime University Journals Home". Prime University. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014.

[9] "Journals Home". Prime University. Archived from the original on 21 November 2016.

[10] "PU j&p". Prime University. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

[11] "Convocation gallery". Prime University. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

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