Kishoreganj University
Profile
- Ownership
- public
- Vice-Chancellor
- Prof. Dr. Dilip Kumar Barua
- Students
- —
- Faculty
- —
- Annual budget
- —
- Established
- 2020
- District
- Kishoreganj
Operationally active but institutionally constrained: participating in 2025-26 GST cluster admissions from a temporary campus at Gurudayal Govt. College with no permanent campus construction underway; August 2025 student shutdown over infrastructure demands was unresolved per available sources; routine administrative notices issued through May 2026 indicate normal administrative functioning
Recent activity
- 2025-02-13 legal Presidential ordinance gazetted renaming Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman University, Kishoreganj to Kishoreganj University; one of 13 public universities renamed after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in August 2024 ↗↗
- 2025-08-24 protest Students declared a complete shutdown demanding relocation to a permanent independent campus, adequate labs and classrooms, a health centre, a proctorial body for student safety, and a playground; university has operated since 2021 from borrowed space inside Gurudayal Government College with no formal tenancy agreement ↗↗
- 2024-10-17 appointment Prof. Dr. Dilip Kumar Barua (Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Dhaka University) appointed Vice-Chancellor for a four-year term; appointment signed by Ministry of Education Deputy Secretary; follows resignation of founding VC Z M Parvez Sazzad after the August 2024 political transition ↗↗
Provenance & notes
established_year set to 2020 (Act No. 17 of 2020 passed September 15, 2020; first academic session 2021-22). The task brief noted a possible 2018 legal basis, but bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd confirms the Act is 2020, not 2018. student_count set null: no verified current enrolment figure found in public sources; initial intake was 120 (4 departments x 30) in 2021-22, but cumulative enrolment is not published. faculty_count set null: no verified figure in public sources. annual_budget_bdt set null: no public budget figure found for any fiscal year. vc_since is October 17, 2024, the date of the Ministry of Education appointment notification per jagonews24.com/campus/news/975577. Founding VC Z M Parvez Sazzad (appointed January 27, 2021) is no longer in post. Pro-VC Dr. Md. Safiqul Islam and Treasurer Md. Iman Ali confirmed on kiu.ac.bd homepage as of May 2026. Registrar Naila Yasmin confirmed in August 2025 news report (quoted by name in jagonews24 shutdown story). The university is fully operational (UGC ID 218, running GST admissions) but physically constrained: permanent campus at Boulai Union (103.87 acres) has not been built; all academic activity is at Gurudayal Govt. College, Kishoreganj Sadar. The 90-day window (February 17 to May 18, 2026) contains only routine administrative notices; the significant events (renaming and protest) fall outside this window but are recorded as notable_events for context. verification_status is partial because student_count, faculty_count, and budget are unverifiable from public sources, and the exact resolution of the August 2025 student shutdown is unknown.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishoreganj_University
- https://kiu.ac.bd
- https://kiu.ac.bd/about
- https://kiu.ac.bd/vc/1
- https://kiu.ac.bd/allnotices/0
- https://admission.kiu.ac.bd/
- http://www.ugc-universities.gov.bd/university-detail/218
- http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-1339.html
- https://www.jagonews24.com/campus/news/975577
- https://www.daily-sun.com/post/532294
- https://rtvonline.com/english/amp/bangladesh/national/266950
- https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/education/389902/complete-shutdown-at-kishoreganj-university-over
- https://dailynewnation.com/kishoreganj-university-students-protest/