Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
| বাংলাদেশ প্রকৌশল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় | |
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| Motto | The ocean of knowledge |
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| Type | Public, Coeducational |
| Established | 1876: Dhaka Survey School 1912: Ahsanullah School of Engineering 1947: Faculty of Engineering, University of Dhaka 1962: EPUET 1971: BUET |
| Chancellor | President of Bangladesh |
| Vice-Chancellor | Saiful Islam |
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Academic staff
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652 |
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Administrative staff
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1,450 |
| Students | 10,066 (June 2015) |
| Undergraduates | 5,169 (June 2015) |
| Postgraduates | 4,274 (June 2015) |
| 437 (June 2015) | |
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Other students
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186 (June 2015) |
| Location | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Campus | Urban, 76.85 acres (0.31 km²) |
| Nickname | BUET |
| Website | buet |
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ প্রকৌশল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, [baŋlad̪eʃ prokowʃɔl biʃʃobid̪d̪alɔe̯]), commonly known as BUET (pronounced: [bue̯eʈ]; Bengali: বুয়েট), is a public university in Bangladesh, which focuses on the study of engineering and architecture. Founded in 1912, it is the oldest institution for the study of engineering, architecture and urban planning in Bangladesh. It enrolls about 10,000 students.
Every year, around 1030 students get accepted to their undergraduate programs to study engineering, architecture, and urban planning. Of the 10,000 candidates selected to write the undergraduate admission test from an initial application pool of over 10,000 applicants, only about the top 10% are admitted. Around 1000 graduate students are accepted into their Masters and PhD programmes on an annual basis. The total number of teachers is around 600. With the construction of new academic buildings, an auditorium complex, and halls of residence, the university has continued to expand over the last three decades. BUET has been ranked 159th among the Asian universities in the 2016 edition of QS World University Rankings.
Dacca Survey School was established in 1876 as a survey school at Nalgola, west of the current Sir Salimullah Medical College campus, in Old Dhaka by the then Government of Bengal under British Raj. It offered a survey course of two years to train land surveyors, at the end of which students competed at the Sub-Overseer's examination. According to a report on public instruction in Bengal, on 31 March 1903, Dacca Survey School had 117 students of which 103 were Hindus and 14 were Muslims. In 1908, the school started to offer diploma degrees.Khwaja Ahsanullah, a philanthropist and member of the Dhaka Nawab Family, endowed donations for developing the survey school. After his death in 1901, his son, the then Nawab of Dhaka, Khwaja Salimullah released 112,000 rupees grant in 1902 in accordance. As an acknowledgement of this contribution, the school was renamed to Ahsanullah School of Engineering.
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