BRAC University

BRAC University is a private research university in Merul Badda, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed founded it in 2001 as a branch of BRAC under the Private University Act of 1992, and the President of Bangladesh, who serves as its chancellor, formally inaugurated it on 16 June 2001. It began on the American liberal arts college model with three departments and about 80 students, and in 2020 it reported 11,200 students in 20 schools, departments and institutes. Its academic units include schools of engineering, life sciences, pharmacy, data and sciences, architecture and design, law and business, with departments such as computer science and engineering, mathematics and natural sciences, microbiology and biotechnology. Every undergraduate spends a mandatory residential semester at the Savar campus, and from November 2023 its programmes ran from the permanent city campus designed by WOHA.