Cumilla Cadet College (; CCC) is a residential military high school and college in

Cumilla Comilla (), officially spelled Cumilla, is a metropolis on the banks of the Gomti River in eastern Bangladesh. Comilla was one of the cities of ancient Bengal. It was once the capital of Tripura kingdom. Comilla Airport is located in the Duli ...

, Bangladesh, for boys in grades 7 to 12.

History

Cumilla Cadet College (CCC) was created on 1 July 1983 by converting Cumilla Residential Model School, a government

boarding school A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. They have existed for many centuries, and now extend acr ...

that had been established on the site in 1966. CCC formally opened on 7 April 1984 under founding principal Lt. Col. Nurul Anwar, with 150 cadets in three intakes. In the months that followed, three more intakes brought it to full enrollment.

Campus

The campus is located in Kotbari,

, about southwest of the city center and near the Buddhist archaeological site

Shalban Vihara Shalban Vihara (Sanskrit; ''Shalban Bihar'') is an archaeological site in Mainamati, Moinamoti, Comilla District, Comilla, Bangladesh. The ruins are in the middle of the Lalmai hills ridge, and these are of a 7th-century Paharpur Buddhist Mona ...

Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) () started its journey on 27 May 1959 as a Training, Research and Action Research institute in rural development. The founder director of this academy dedicated to the leadership of Akhtar Hameed K ...

(BARD), and Cumilla University. The college campus covers an area of 50.74 acres.

Curriculum

Cadet colleges are under the control of the Army. CCC also maintains a separate school and college for girls. Admission starts from seventh grade. At the end of tenth grade, cadets sit the

Secondary School Certificate Secondary School Certificate (SSC), Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) or Matriculation examination, is a public examination in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Maldives and Nepal conducted by educational boards for the successful completi ...

(SSC) examination. Those who pass have the option of continuing into eleventh and twelfth grades. Students take their SSC and

Higher Secondary (School) Certificate Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC), Higher Secondary School Certificate, Higher Secondary Education Certificate (HSEC) or Intermediate Examination is a secondary education qualification in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. It is equivalent to the f ...

(HSC) examinations under the

Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Cumilla The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Cumilla is an autonomous organization that is responsible for holding public examinations Junior School Certificate (J.S.C.), Secondary School Certificate (S.S.C.), and Higher Secondary (Schoo ...

. Of the schools under this board, CCC placed among the top ten in terms of SSC and/or HSC results from the early 1990s till date.

Notable alumni

* James Leo Ferguson, A Bangladeshi fighter of Scottish origin and tea industrialist who graduated in 1971 * Major General Md Jubayer Salehin, E in C,

Bangladesh Army The Bangladesh Army () is the land warfare branch, and the largest component of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The primary mission of the Army is to defend the land of Bangladesh from any external attack. Control of personnel and operations is ad ...

. * Rear Admiral S. M. Moniruzzaman, Chairman,

Chittagong Port Authority Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) is a government agency of Bangladesh responsible for the management, maintenance and governance of the country's major port of Chittagong, located in the city of Chittagong on the Karnaphuli River nine nautical mi ...

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