Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology

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Ownership: public
Vice-Chancellor: Prof. Dr. Mahmud Abdul Matin Bhuiyan
Students: 6000
Faculty: 415
Annual budget: —
Established: 2003
District: Chittagong

VC Mahmud Abdul Matin Bhuiyan (6th VC, appointed 30 October 2024) remains in post; CUET was not included in either the March 16 or May 14 2026 government VC reshuffle batches. The 2025-26 undergraduate admission cycle completed in May 2026 with 931 seats filled across 12 departments. CUET is in its second consecutive year operating its own separate admission test, having opted out of the CUET-KUET-RUET cluster.

Recent activity

2026-02-25 admission Second-phase 2025-26 undergraduate admission: provisional department allocation lists published for KA (Engineering and URP) and KHA (Architecture) groups; payment-confirmed allocation notices followed 26 February 2026. ↗
2026-03-11 admission Third-phase 2025-26 admission: updated seat-free summary published showing nearly all seats filled across all 12 departments except Materials and Metallurgical Engineering (14 of 30 seats vacant); total capacity 931 seats (920 general + 11 reserved for tribal community). ↗↗
2026-04-08 admission Fourth-phase 2025-26 admission: department allocation lists published for all candidate groups (KA, KHA, Tribal, Rakhain) on 8 April 2026; fifth-phase allocation followed on 22-23 April 2026. ↗↗
2026-04-15 admission Deadline for applications from foreign students for the 2025-26 session: applications required to reach CUET by 15 April 2026, submitted directly or through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or Ministry of Education. ↗
2026-05-04 admission Final allocation notices published (4 May 2026) for the 2025-26 session; waiting-list admission notice issued 17 May 2026, completing the multi-phase undergraduate enrolment cycle for the year. ↗

Provenance & notes

student_count 6000 sourced from Wikipedia ('6000+' total; approximately 4,500 undergraduate and graduate). faculty_count 415 from Wikipedia academic staff figure. Campus is 188 acres in Raozan Upazila (Pahartoli), Chittagong District, postal code 4349, ~25 km from Chittagong city centre on the Chittagong-Kaptai Highway. VC Mahmud Abdul Matin Bhuiyan: 6th VC, appointed 30 October 2024 by Ministry of Education notification; previously Head of Nuclear Engineering Department at CUET; PhD from National University of Malaysia in EEE. Confirmed absent from March 16 2026 batch (DU, CU, RU, JnU, BOU, KUET, DCU) and May 14 2026 batch (BUET plus 10 others). Pro-VC situation: Prof. Dr. Jamal Uddin Ahamed (Mechatronics and Industrial Engineering) was appointed pro-VC in February 2024, but is listed as 'Ex Pro-VC' on social media; no confirmed replacement found in press through May 2026; field set null pending verification. Registrar Prof. Dr. Sheikh Muhammad Humayun Kabir serves on additional charge (EEE department) per Wikipedia and cuet.ac.bd faculty profile. Legal basis confirmed as Act No. XXXI of 2003 per Banglapedia and multiple Wikipedia citations; gazette dated July 24, 2003. University history: Chittagong Engineering College (1968) >> Bangladesh Institute of Technology Chittagong (1986, under ordinance) >> CUET (2003, Act XXXI). No budget figure found in any verified primary source; field left null. annual_budget_bdt null: no verified figure found in press or official sources. Seat count 931 (920+11) verified from admissioncuet.ac.bd official admission documents. Elected not to participate in CKRUET cluster admission for 2025-26 (second consecutive year per Daily Campus article, December 2025).

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