Khulna University of Engineering and Technology
Profile
- Ownership
- public
- Vice-Chancellor
- Prof. Dr. Muhammad Mashud
- Students
- 7941
- Faculty
- 463
- Annual budget
- —
- Established
- 2003
- District
- Khulna
Stabilising under reappointed VC Mashud (March 24, 2026) after a turbulent 18-month leadership cycle triggered by February 2025 student-Chhatra Dal clashes; no Pro-VC named as of verification date
Recent activity
- 2026-03-16 appointment Prof. Dr. Muhammad Mashud reappointed as KUET Vice-Chancellor for a four-year term by the government, effective March 24, 2026, through a Ministry of Education notification under the Secondary and Higher Education Division ↗↗↗
- 2026-03-24 appointment Prof. Dr. Muhammad Mashud formally assumed office as KUET Vice-Chancellor; no Pro-Vice-Chancellor named concurrently ↗
- 2026-01-15 admission KUET UG admission test for 2025-26 session held across KUET and BUET centres; 10,465 of 11,713 candidates sat the exam (89.35% attendance); 1,065 seats across 16 departments ↗
- 2026-02-01 admission Merit list and subject-choice instructions for 2025-26 session published at admission.kuet.ac.bd ↗
- 2026-05-09 other Hult Prize Bangladesh National Round 2026 hosted at KUET campus; 60 teams from universities nationwide competed; Team Denim Revive won the national championship and earned a global incubation programme berth ↗↗
Provenance & notes
KUET traces its lineage to Khulna Engineering College (1967), renamed Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT) Khulna in 1986, and elevated to a full university under the KUET Act 2003. Campus: 117.48 acres at Fulbarigate, ~15 km from Khulna city centre. Student body per Wikipedia: 7,941 total (5,916 UG, 1,809 PG, 153 PhD, 63 other); 463 academic staff. Leadership history 2024-26 was highly unstable: Mashud first appointed September 5, 2024; removed April 24, 2025 following February 18, 2025 student-Chhatra Dal clashes that injured ~100 students; interim VC Prof. Md. Hazrat Ali served May 1-22, 2025 before resigning amid teachers' protest; Prof. Md. Maksud Helali (retired BUET) served July 24, 2025-March 16, 2026; Mashud reappointed March 16, 2026, assumed office March 24, 2026. Pro-VC Prof. Dr. SK Shariful Alam was also relieved in April 2025 alongside Mashud; no replacement named as of May 2026. The Selim Hyder referenced in the task brief is Prof. Md. Selim Hossain (EEE department), who died in December 2021 after alleged BCL harassment -- not a 2025 event; nine students were expelled. The 2025 crisis was a separate incident (Chhatra Dal vs. anti-discrimination student movement). Budget data unavailable from public sources.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khulna_University_of_Engineering_%26_Technology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mashud
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