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Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST) (; পাবিপ্রবি) is a government financed public university in Bangladesh. PUST was established in 2008. It started its four-year undergraduate programme in 2009.


History

The government passed an act on 15 July 2001 to establish a science and technology university in
Pabna Pabna () is a city of Pabna District, Bangladesh and the administrative capital of the eponymous Pabna District. It is on the north bank of the Padma River and has a population of about . Etymology * According to the historian Radharaman Saha ...
. Amin Uddin Mridha was the university's first vice chancellor, appointed on 11 December 2008. Administrative activities commenced the following month at the university's temporary home, Pabna Teachers Training College (TTC) in Rajapur village,
Pabna Sadar Upazila Pabna Sadar () is an upazila of Pabna District in the Division of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Geography Pabna Sadar is located at . It has 74,517 households and the total area is 439.30 km2. Demographics According to the 2011 Census of Banglade ...
. PUST began with four departments: Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Mathematics, and Business Administration. Two hundred students enrolled, divided evenly among the four departments. Instruction began on 4 April 2009 at the TTC. In 2009, Mridha was replaced by Md. Mozaffar Hossain as vice chancellor.
Pabna District Pabna District () is a district in west central Bangladesh. It is a geographically and economically important district. Its administrative capital is the eponymous Pabna town. The main five rivers of this district are: Padma, Jamuna, Baral, Atra ...
transferred to PUST in Rajapur village for construction of a permanent campus. PUST also added four departments that year: Information Technology and Communication Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics and Electronic Communication Engineering, and Economics. Student unrest demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor Hossain broke out on 17 June 2012. Over the following months students employed various tactics to press their demands, including a boycott of classes, human chain, sit-in, blockade of the Dhaka-Pabna highway, and confining the vice chancellor in the administration building. Activists of the
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, the student wing of the
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, accused the vice chancellor of corruption and nepotism, charges the university administration denied. Students continued to demonstrate against Hossain even after he left on 22 November 2013 at the conclusion of his four-year appointment. A replacement was not immediately named. Administrative collapse ensued, causing teachers to form a human chain on 23 December, demanding that a vice chancellor be appointed. On 2 January 2014, Al-Nakib Chowdhury took up the post of vice chancellor. In 2015, the Geography, Environment, and Urban Planning department, introduced in 2012, was split into two: Geography and Environment, and Urban and Regional Planning. In late August 2016, hundreds of students, frustrated by a long-standing problem of frequent power cuts to the dormitories, torched three of the university's buses in protest. The university administration closed PUST for a month to head off further violence. Chowdhury completed his tenure as vice chancellor on 1 January 2018. On 7 March, M Rostom Ali was named as his replacement. The board of regents closed PUST in November in response to student protests demanding better transportation, housing, food subsidies, security, and WiFi on campus. Allegations surfaced on 26 October 2019 that Ali, as well as the pro vice chancellor, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and the department chair accepted bribes from applicants for a job in the History department. Ali denied taking a bribe, but the allegations triggered student demonstrations demanding that he be removed. Protests continued until 11 November, when the university administration accepted some of the students' other demands. Among their complaints were insufficient classroom space, under-staffing of teachers (particularly in the Architecture, History, and Geography and Environment departments), under-resourced laboratories and library, inadequate student housing, poor quality and expensive food, and a shortage of bus transport. In-person instruction, cancelled for more than 18 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, resumed in October 2021. Ali's term as vice chancellor expired on 5 March 2022 during renewed student and staff protests over allegations of corruption and nepotism on his part.


Campus

PUST is located in Rajapur village, about northeast of central Pabna. The campus covers . The Dhaka-Pabna highway passes along the northwest edge of campus and separates it from Pabna Teachers Training College. At the center of campus are the Central Library and Information Center, Independence Square, and PUST Central Cafeteria. Roughly speaking, administrative offices lie to the north, academic buildings to the south, faculty and female student housing to the east, and male student housing to the west. There are two student halls of residence: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall can accommodate 450 men and Sheikh Hasina Hall has beds for 216 women. Eighty-five percent of the student body lives off campus. PUST owns five buses and rents two more from Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation to transport commuting staff and students. PUST's original buildings are no more than 5 stories high. As of 2023, construction of five 10-storey academic and administrative buildings was being finished by Dhaka-based contractor Hossain Construction Pvt Ltd at a cost of 5.2 billion
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($48 million as of 2023).


Administration

* Vice-Chancellor: ''Dr. S M Abdul-Awal'' * Pro-Vice-Chancellor: ''Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam''


List of vice-chancellors

* Md. Amin Uddin Mridha (2008 – 2009) * Md. Mozaffar Hossain (2009 – 22 November 2013) * Al-Nakib Chowdhury (2 January 2014 – 1 January 2018) * M. Rostom Ali (7 March 2018 – 5 May 2022) *
Hafiza Khatun Hafiza Khatun (born 12 July 1954) is a Bangladeshi academic and a former vice-chancellor of the Pabna University of Science and Technology. She is a professor and former chairperson of the Department of Geography and Environment at the Universit ...
(13 April 2022 – 14 August 2024) * Dr. S M Abdul-Awal (25 September 2024 – Present- )


Academics

PUST has 21 departments in 5 faculties.


Faculty and departments

* Faculty of Engineering and Technology ** Department of
Computer Science and Engineering Computer science and engineering (CSE) is an academic subject comprising approaches of computer science and computer engineering. There is no clear division in computing between science and engineering, just like in the field of materials science ...
(CSE) ** Department of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
(EEE); ** Department of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering (EECE); ** Department of Information and Communication Engineering (ICE); ** Department of Civil Engineering (CE); ** Department of
Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...
(ARCH) ** Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP) * Faculty of Science ** Department of
Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...
(MATH) ** Department of Physics (PHY) ** Department of Statistics (STAT) ** Department of Chemistry (CHE) ** Department of
Pharmacy Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medication, medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it ...
(PHARM) * Faculty of Business Studies ** Department of
Business Administration Business administration is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. Overview The administration of a business includes the performance o ...
(BA) ** Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management (THM) * Faculty of Humanities and Social Science ** Department of Economics (ECO) ** Department of
Bangla Bangla () may refer to: *Bengali language, an eastern Indo-Aryan language *The endonym of Bengal, a geographical and ethno-linguistic region in South Asia *''Bangla-'', a prefix indicating Bangladesh *West Bengal, a state in eastern India, also kn ...
(BAN) ** Department of English (ENG) ** Department of Social Work (SW) ** Department of Public Administration (PAD) ** Department of History (HIS) * Faculty of Life and Earth Science ** Department of Geography and Environment (GE)


Degree programs

* B.Sc. (Engineering) * B. Arch. * B. URP * B.Sc. (Honours) * B.B.A. * B.A. (Honours) * B.S.S. (Honours) * B.Pharm. (Professional) * MBA (Regular) * M.Sc. Engineering * M. Engineering * M.Pharm. * M.Phil. * Ph.D.


Publications

* ''Pabna University of Science & Technology Studies'' () * ''Journal of Business Studies, PUST'' () * ''Journal of Humanities and Social Science, PUST''


Cultural Clubs


কণ্ঠস্বর আবৃত্তি দল


Photo gallery

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References


See also

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(BUTEX) *
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External links


Official website
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