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RUET

Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology
রাজশাহী প্রকৌশল ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (Rājśāhī Prakauśal ō Prayukti Biśbabidyālay.)
RUET logo.svg
Logo of the Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology
Former names
1964: Rajshahi Engineering College (REC)
1986: Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT), Rajshahi
Motto ঐশী জ্যোতিই আমাদের পথ প্রদর্শক (aiśī jyōtii āmādēra patha pradarśaka)
Motto in English
Heaven's Light is Our Guide
Type Public University
Established 1964 (1964)
Chancellor President of Bangladesh
Vice-Chancellor Mohd. Rafiqul Alam Beg
Academic staff
254
Administrative staff
389 (2014)
Students 3654
Undergraduates 3225
Postgraduates 353
76
Location Rajshahi, Bangladesh
24°21′49″N 88°37′41″E / 24.3635°N 88.6280°E / 24.3635; 88.6280Coordinates: 24°21′49″N 88°37′41″E / 24.3635°N 88.6280°E / 24.3635; 88.6280
Campus Urban, 152 acres (0.61 km²)
Language English
Website ruet.ac.bd

Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, commonly known as RUET, is one of the seventeen PhD granting public research universities in Bangladesh. It is one of the five prestigious public universities in the country that specializes in the field of engineering (Other four ones are named as BUET, CUET, DUET and KUET).

RUET was founded in 1964 as Rajshahi Engineering College with a limited number of students. It was then changed to Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT) in 1986 and was finally renamed Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET) in 2003.

At present, more than 3000 students are pursuing their higher study in this green campus including under-graduate and post-graduate with over 250 prominent faculty members in diverse field of expertise. The medium of instruction and necessary assessment of this university is English.

Before the independence of Bangladesh, the then Government of Pakistan, to meet the increasing demand of professional engineers for the national development, established Rajshahi Engineering College in 1964 as a faculty of engineering under the University of Rajshahi. It was the second engineering college established in the then East Pakistan (The first one was Ahsanullah Engineering College: now BUET).

Rajshahi Engineering College ( was commonly known as REC) started its journey with only three departments: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Civil Engineering, offering bachelor's degree programs only. It accepted its first class of 120 students in the academic session of 1964/65 and the second class of like number in the academic session of 1965/66. The teaching faculty consisted of 19 faculty members at that time.


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