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Bangladesh University of Professionals

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Ownership
public
Vice-Chancellor
Major General Md Mahbub-ul Alam, BSP, ndc, afwc, psc, MPhil, PhD
Students
10000
Faculty
710
Annual budget
৳1,349,700,000
Established
2008
District
Dhaka

Routine academic cycle underway: 2025-26 session freshers received (Apr-May 2026), FY 2025-26 budget of Tk 134.97 crore approved at 17th senate meeting (June 2025), VC unchanged since April 2022; no political turbulence or VC rotation detected in the 90-day window

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Provenance & notes

student_count (~10,000) and faculty_count (~710) from Wikipedia citing BUP data; earlier third-party sources give 6,050+ students and 410+ faculty, likely stale; Wikipedia figures (10,000+, 710+) used as more recent. Budget FY 2025-26: Tk 134 crore 97 lakh = 1,349,700,000 BDT, approved at 17th Annual Senate Meeting on June 19, 2025 (New Age BD); treasurer listed is current as of that meeting. VC Major General Md Mahbub-ul Alam appointed April 5, 2022 per bup.edu.bd/vc_information; rank is Major General (not Lieutenant General), appointed from Bangladesh Army Infantry corps. Pro-VC Prof Dr Khondoker Mokaddem Hossain's term expired December 9, 2025; no successor confirmed on bup.edu.bd/pro-vc-information as of May 2026; set to null. Mir Mugdho (BUP MBA student) killed July 18, 2024 at Azampur intersection while distributing water during quota-reform protests; memorial initiatives documented at Khulna University (his undergraduate institution), not at BUP campus directly. BUP under Ministry of Defence/Armed Forces Division, not Ministry of Education -- UGC-recognized but not under MoE. VC is uniformed officer; no rotation detected in the 90-day window (Feb-May 2026). verification_status=partial: student/faculty counts not officially published for 2025-26; Pro-VC vacancy unconfirmed; no FY 2026-27 budget yet.

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