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Presidency , Bangladesh
প্রেসিডেন্সী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
Other name	PU
Motto	Knowledge and Wisdom
Type	Private
Established	21 July 2003
Affiliation	University Grants Commission (Bangladesh)
Vice-Chancellor	Prof. Dr. Md. Abdul Mannan Chowdhury
Academic staff	155
Total staff	102
Students	3000
Undergraduates	2500
Postgraduates	500
Location	Presidency University Area, Gulshan Thana, Gulshan Thana, Dhaka - 1212, Bangladesh; 23°47′47″N 90°25′02″E / 23.7964°N 90.417338°E
Campus	Urban, 47 acres (19 ha)
Colours	Red and blue
Website	www.presidency.edu.bd

Presidency University, Bangladesh (Bengali: প্রেসিডেন্সী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, বাংলাদেশ) is a private research university with a campus in Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Presidency University has Four schools containing eight departments with a strong emphasis on research-based education. The Gulshan campus was established in 2003. More than 3000 students are currently enrolled here. The number of faculty members teaching at the university is nearly 300.^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

History

The Presidency University Foundation, a group of 30 teachers, leaders of business and industry, and retired government officers, came together and petitioned the government for a permit to establish and operate Presidency University. On July 21, 2003, the Ministry of Education (MoE) of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB), in keeping with the Private University Act 1992, authorized the establishment and operation of Presidency University. Thereafter, Presidency University opened its door to students in September of 2003.

The Principal Sponsor of Presidency University is Mr. Muslehuddin Ahmad, a former Secretary and Ambassador of Bangladesh. Indeed it is he who first came out with the proposal to establish a private university in Bangladesh in 1988. On the basis of an article, The Private University in Bangladesh, an initial proposal, by Junaid K. Ahmad, which was published first on February 2, 1988 in Bidesh Bangla, a magazine published in California, USA.

Campus

The university's campus is located in Gulshan-2 Residential Area in Dhaka under the Gulshan Thana. It is one of the growing largest private universities in Bangladesh in terms of quality of education.

Academic Departments

The university departments are organized into Five (5) schools.

School of Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering (CE)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE)
Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering (ETE)

School of Business

Department of Business Administration

School of Liberal Arts & Humanities

Department of English

School of Social Sciences

Department of Economics

School of Law

Department of Law and Justice

Academic semester

The academic duration of PU has both two & three semesters a year:

Spring semester: January–April
Summer semester: May–August
Fall semester: September–December

Lab facilities

CSE/EEE/ETE

Computer Lab
Outstanding Courses
Physics Lab
Chemistry Lab
Electrical Circuits Lab
Electronics Lab
Electrical Machine Lab
Measurement & Instrumentation Lab
High Voltage Engineering Lab
Power Electronics Lab
Analog Electronics Lab
VLSI Lab
Computer Networks Lab
Digital Signal processing Lab
Software Engineering Lab
Microprocessor and Interfacing Lab
Digital Logic Designing Lab
Control Systems Lab
IC Fabrication Lab(Analog & Digital)
Communication Engineering Lab including
- Digital Communication Lab
- Optical Fiber Communication Lab
- Wireless Communication Lab
- RF Communication Lab
- Microwave Engg. Lab