Chittagong College is a

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educational institution in

Chittagong Chittagong ( ), officially Chattogram, (, ) (, or ) is the second-largest city in Bangladesh. Home to the Port of Chittagong, it is the busiest port in Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal. The city is also the business capital of Bangladesh. It ...

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. It is a

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and also a degree awarding college of

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. It is the second higher secondary school in the region that currently constitutes Bangladesh, established in 1869 after the

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in 1841.

History

Having begun as Chattogram District school (now

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) in 1836, it became an intermediate college on 2 January 1869. Its academic activities as a college started at a Portuguese-merchant-built building beside the Parade Ground. The first principal was J. C. Bose. Initially, it used to offer law education, but the subject was suspended in 1909. In the same year, it started providing science education in the intermediate section from the 1909. The institute became a graduation college in 1910 after

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recognized it as a first class degree college. From then it started providing honours degrees on

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, history, mathematics, physics and chemistry. In 1919, supplementary courses on

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, economics and philosophy were introduced. In 1942, honours courses in Economics started. The college suspended its honours programme in 1955. But, it reintroduced honours courses on English, Bangla, economics, physics, chemistry and mathematics in 1960. B.Sc. (Bachelor of Science) courses on zoology and botany and B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) /B.Sc. (Bachelor of Science) course on statistics were introduced in 1962. In 1926,

A. K. Fazlul Huq Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq (26 October 1873 – 27 April 1962), popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla, was a Bengalis, Bengali lawyer and politician who served as the first and longest Prime Minister of Bengal, prime minister of Bengal during the Britis ...

established Muslim Chattrabash, which is now known as Sher-e-Bangla Chattrabas. The students of this institution participated in Language movement in 1952, Bengali Education movement in 1962, and

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in 1971.

Affiliation

Faculties and departments

The college teaches honours and offers master's degrees in 17 subjects (present 2018). Science and humanities are course for HSC student. The college has five academic buildings, a library with 60,000 books, a mosque, and an auditorium. The college has three academic buildings. one of them used as a foreign language teaching inclusive arts and an ICT (information and communication technology) lab based building. Chittagong College Map Rohan

Faculty of Arts & Social Science

The Department of English in Chittagong College is called Royal Department. Famous scholar Subodh Candra Sen Gupta joined in the department in 1933. It opened in 1910. The faculty comprises the following departments: * Department of Bengali * Department of English * Department of Economics * Department of Political Science * Department of History * Department of Islamic History and Culture * Department of Philosophy * Department of Sociology * Department of Islamic Studies

Faculty of Science

The faculty comprises the following departments: * Department of Geography * Department of Physics * Department of Chemistry * Department of Botany * Department of Zoology * Department of Statistics * Department of Mathematics * Department of Psychology

College facility

Student dormitories

There are three male and one female student dormitories. * Saheed Sohrawordy dormitory: "A" block is for Muslim students and "B" block is for non-Muslim students. * Sher-e-Bangla dormitory * Dr. Abdus Sabur dormitory: for honours and master's students * Hazrat Khadizatul Kobra (R) dormitory: for female students * Shekh Hasina dormitory: for female students

College ground

The college has a large ground known as

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. In this five acre ground students from the college and from other colleges play cricket, football, and volleyball.

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(Bangladesh National Cadet Corps) uses the ground.

Co-curricular activities

Chittagong College ECA Club
* Chittagong College Information Technology Club (XI-XII students only) *

, the college has the HQ of Karnaphuly battalion-2 of Bangladesh National Cadet Corp. Two Sections are Army Wing and Naval Wing *

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* Chattogram College Creative Club

Chittagong College Information Technology Club (CCITC)

Chittagong College Information Technology Club was founded on February 2, 2020. It is a platform that provides students with opportunities to discuss various topics on informatics outside the classroom and enhance the skills of students other than the regular curriculum. Current activities include Programming and Problem Solving, IoT and Robotics, Web Development and Graphic Design, and Data Science and Machine Learning. There is one class per week for any of the above four topics. To attend the classes, being a member is mandatory.

Other facilities

* Two-storied mosque * Common rooms for male and female students. The common room for female students is a two-storied building. * Canteen between the auditorium and the administrative building * Gymnasium *

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, Chittagong College branch * Medical centre * Foreign language training center LTC

Notable alumni

Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, entrepreneur, and civil society leader who has been serving as the Chief Adviser of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser of the Interim government of Muhammad Yunus, interim Yunus ministry, g ...

, awarded the

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for founding the

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and pioneering the concepts of

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and

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. Incumbent

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Mahmudunnabi Chowdhury Mahmudunnabi Chowdhury (; 7 January 1908 – 6 August 1995) was a Bangladeshi politician, businessman and former minister. He was one of the founders of the Chittagong Chamber of Commerce. Chowdhury contested as a United Front candidate for the Do ...

(1908–1995), former Minister of Relief and Rehabilitation *

Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury (born 10 November 1949) is a standing committee member of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and former minister of commerce. He hails from a political family in Chittagong and headed the city's BNP unit momentarily to or ...

(born 1949), former Minister of Commerce *

Janardan Chakravarti Professor Janardan Chakravarti (1901-1987) was a renowned scholar in Vaishnav literature and a celebrated professor of Bengali. He was awarded the DLitt by the University of Calcutta for his contributions to Bengali literature. Career His oth ...

Nalinaksha Dutt Nalinaksha Dutt (1893–1973), was an Indian scholar of Buddhism, professor of Sanskrit and Pali at the University of Calcutta and chaired The Asiatic Society, among other representative functions, as vice-president of the Maha Bodhi Society. H ...

. * Bhabatosh Dutta *

Manabendra Narayan Larma Manabendra Narayan Larma (15 September 1939 – 10 November 1983; also known by his initials M.N. Larma) was a Bangladeshi politician and member of parliament. A leading proponent of the rights of the people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, he wa ...

, the founding leader of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti *

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, lawyer, businessman, politician and soldier. He was the first mayor of Cox's Bazar *

Enamul Haque Inam-ul-Haq (), meaning ''Gift of the Truth'', is a masculine Islamic given name.). Notable bearers of the name include; Cricketers *Inam-ul-Haq (born 1943), Pakistani cricketer *Enamul Haque Moni (born 1966), Bangladeshi cricketer *Inam-ul-Haq ...

, a Bangladeshi researcher, litterateur and educationist *

Salimullah Khan Salimullah Khan (, ; born 18 August 1958) is a Bangladeshi writer, academic, teacher and public intellectual. Khan explores national and international politics and culture using Marxist and Lacanian theories. Informed and influenced by Ahmed S ...

Birendra Kishore Roaza Birendra Kishore Roaza was a Tripuri social activist and politician who represented the Chittagong Hill Tracts in the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election. He was the first Jumma member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly The ...

* Asif Iqbal, Bangladeshi lyricist, music composer and corporate personality * Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing, is a Bangladeshi politician and former Member of Parliament and also former

Minister of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs The minister of Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs of Bangladesh is the minister in charge of the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs within the government of Bangladesh. He is also the minister of all departments and agencies under the Minist ...

. *

A J M Nasir Uddin Abu Jahed Mohammad Nasir Uddin, also known as A.J.M. Nasir Uddin (Bengali: আ জ ম নাসির উদ্দিন; born 1 January 1957) is a Bangladeshi politician for the Awami League party and former mayor of Chittagong. He has been acc ...

, Bangladeshi Politician, former

Mayor of Chittagong The Mayor of Chittagong is the highest administrative officer of Chattogram City Corporation. The Mayor's office manages all civic services, government property management, and most government agency operations in the city. In addition, the mayor ...

and Vice President of

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. *

Rezaul Karim Chowdhury Rezaul Karim Chowdhury (; born 31 May 1953) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the 6th mayor of Chattogram. He is also the joint general secretary of Chattogram Mahanagar Awami League. He was elected mayor in 2021 and removed in 2024 afte ...

, Bangladeshi Politician and former Mayor of Chittagong.

Notable faculty members

Surendranath Dasgupta Surendranath Dasgupta (18 October 1887 – 18 December 1952) was an Indian scholar of Sanskrit and Indian philosophy. Family and education Surendranath Dasgupta was born to a Vaidya family in Kushtia, Bengal (now in Bangladesh), on Sunday, ...

, he was a professor of Bangla and Sangskrit in the college * Subodh Chandra Sengupta, came to dept. of English in this college in 1933 from Presidency College, Kolkata * Motaher Hussain Chowdhury, a Bengalii writer, was born in

Noakhali Noakhali District (), historically known as Bhulua (), is a Districts of Bangladesh, district in southeastern Bangladesh, located in Chattogram Division. It was established as a district in 1821, and officially named Noakhali in 1868. The distr ...

. He worked in Chittagong College from 1947 to 1956. *

Badruddin Umar Badruddin Umar (; born 20 December 1931) is a Bangladeshi Marxist–Leninist theorist, political activist, historian, writer, intellectual and leader of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar). His father, Abul Hashim, w ...

Abdul Haque Faridi Abul Faraḥ Muḥammad Abdul Ḥaque Farīdī (25 May 1903 – 5 February 1996) was a Bangladeshi educator and author. In recognition of his contributions in the field of linguistics, he was awarded a Bangla Academy Fellowship. Faridi was the f ...

, lecturer

Gallery

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References

External links

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