Chittagong College
| চট্টগ্রাম কলেজ | |
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| Motto | শিক্ষাই শক্তি |
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Motto in English
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Education is Power |
| Type | Government funded public college |
| Established | 1869 |
| Principal | Professor Jesmin Akter |
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Academic staff
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169 |
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Administrative staff
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400 |
| Location |
Chawkbazar, Chittagong,  Bangladesh
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| Campus | 6 acres (Urban) |
| Affiliations | Bangladesh National University |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 22°21′12.73″N 91°50′14.58″E / 22.3535361°N 91.8373833°E
Chittagong College (Bengali: ) is a government college in Chittagong, Bangladesh. It is the second college established in Bangladesh after Dhaka College.
Having begun as Chittagong District school in 1836, it became an intermediate college in 1869. The first principal was J C Bose. It started providing science education in intermediate section from the 1909. The institute became a graduation college in 1910 after University of Calcutta had recognized it as a first class degree college. From then it started providing honours degrees on Arabic, Bengali, Pali, Sanskrit, History, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. From 1919 it started courses on English, Economics, and Philosophy. In 1926, A. K. Fazlul Huq established Muslim Chattrabash which is now known as Sher-e-Bangla Chattrabas. The students of this institution participated in Bengali Education movement in 1962 and Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
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