University of Rajshahi
Profile
- Ownership
- public
- Vice-Chancellor
- Prof Dr Md Faridul Islam
- Students
- 22189
- Faculty
- 1200
- Annual budget
- —
- Established
- 1953
- District
- Rajshahi
New VC installed March 2026 under BNP government; administration actively addressing inherited session backlog while building new international partnerships; campus operationally stable.
Recent activity
- 2026-03-16 appointment Prof Dr Md Faridul Islam (Marketing Dept) appointed as VC by Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon under BNP-Tarique government; effective immediately, four-year term. ↗↗↗
- 2026-03-17 appointment VC Faridul Islam formally assumes office at joining ceremony attended by Pro-VCs, Acting Registrar, deans, and heads; pays respects at Dr Zoha grave and Shaheed Minar. ↗↗
- 2026-03-24 international VC Faridul Islam meets Wakayama Suhoi (Director, International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Japan) to explore academic collaboration including joint research, faculty exchange, and student mobility. ↗
- 2026-04-11 other 5th biennial conference of RU Economics Department Alumni Association held at Kazi Nazrul Islam Auditorium; approximately 900 alumni attend; VC Faridul Islam inaugurates. ↗
- 2026-04-12 academic_council VC chairs meeting at Senate Building to address session backlog; directs departments with delays to prepare time-bound action plans; emphasises punctual academic calendar adherence. ↗
- 2026-05-04 other World Intellectual Property Day 2026 observed on campus; theme 'IP and Sports: Ready, Set, Innovate'; IQAC-organised procession and rally attended by VC, Pro-VCs, Treasurer, Proctor, and students. ↗
- 2026-05-07 research Molecular Biology, Genomics and Protein Research Lab inaugurated in Dept of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences; inaugurated by Pro-VC (Academic) Farid Uddin Khan; four-day foundation workshop held concurrently. ↗
Provenance & notes
verification_status=partial: student_count (22,189) is from Wikipedia citing THE data; a higher figure (~37,156) appears in THE world rankings page and some third-party aggregators but Wikipedia cites 22,189 undergrad+PG+doctoral; without UGC annual report access the lower verified figure is used. faculty_count (1,200+) from Wikipedia; no precise figure retrievable without UGC database access. annual_budget_bdt null: RU budget figures not available in any primary source fetched; UGC annual report behind SSL-certificate error. registrar listed as Acting (Prof Iftikharul Alam Masud) per joining ceremony reports; confirm whether substantive appointment made post-March 2026. Treasurer confirmed as Prof Md Matiar Rahman from World IP Day event BSS report (2026-05-04). VC predecessor Prof Saleh Hasan Naqib (appointed Aug 2024 by interim govt) replaced on 2026-03-16 by BNP-Tarique government alongside 6 other public university VCs.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Rajshahi
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