University of South Asia, Bangladesh
ইউনিভার্সিটি অব সাউথ এশিয়া
TypePrivate research university
Established2003 (2003)
ChancellorPresident Mohammed Shahabuddin
Vice-ChancellorM. A. Wadud Mondal
Academic staff
108[1]
Students2,900[1]
Location
Amin Bazar, Savar Upazila
,
Dhaka District
,
Bangladesh

23°47′42″N 90°24′10″E / 23.7951°N 90.4027°E / 23.7951; 90.4027
LanguageEnglish
Websitesouthasiauni.edu.bd

University of South Asia (Bengali: ইউনিভার্সিটি অব সাউথ এশিয়া) or UNISA is a private university in the Amin Bazar, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Its curriculum has been approved by the University Grants Commission.

History

The university was founded in 2003.[2]

In July 2010, students protesting against value-added tax on tuition blockaded the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway near the university's temporary campus in the Banai neighborhood of Dhaka. Unable to negotiate an end to the conflict, police baton charged the protesters and fired tear gas to clear the road. Students threw brick bats at the police and vandalised vehicles.[3]

A University Grants Commission (UGC) team made a surprise inspection of the university in August 2016. They did not find the vice-chancellor, pro-vice-chancellor, or treasurer on campus.[4] The board of trustees was not formed in accordance with the rules, there was a lack of senior teachers, research was not being performed, and needy students and children of freedom fighters were not being admitted in line with their quotas. In November, the UGC recommended that the Education Ministry cancel the university's temporary approval.[5]

The Private Universities Act 2010 allows at most one-third of the instructors at a university to be part-time. In 2017, more than two-thirds were part time.[6] As of August 2022, the university had only one full professor, the remaining instructors being assistant professors or lecturers.[7]

According to the UGC, the university carried out no research in 2017 or 2018.[8][9]

By 2018, the university had 4 faculties with a total of 17 departments, and enrollment was 2900. Approximately 70% of students were pursuing degrees in engineering and technology, 15% in business, and 8% in science. About one tenth of the students were female.[1]

It moved to its permanent campus in Savar Upazila in 2022.[10]

Academics

The university has four schools:

University of South Asia Business School

  • Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
  • Master of Business Administration (MBA)
  • Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)
  • Master of Bank Management (MBM)

University of South Asia School of Engineering

  • Bachelor of Computer Science & Engineering (BCSE)
  • Bachelor of Computer Science & Information Technology (BCSIT)
  • Bachelor of Textile Engineering (BTE)
  • Master of Computer Application (MCA)
  • Master of Computer Science (MCS)

University of South Asia School of Humanities

  • Bachelor of Arts in English Literature & Culture (BAE)

University of South Asia School of Public Health and Life Science

  • Bachelor of Environmental Science (BES)
  • Master of Nutrition & Food Science (MNFS)
  • Master of Public Health (MPH)
  • Master of Public Health of Ophthalmology
  • Diploma of Optometry & Low Vision (DOLV) and Diploma of Nutrition &Food Science (DNFS)

List of vice-chancellors

  • Vacant (January 2016 – June 2017)[11]
  • M. A. Wadud Mondal (June 2017–present)[12][13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Statistical Yearbook Bangladesh 2020 (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. May 2021. pp. 436, 439. ISBN 978-984-475-047-0.
  2. ↑ "University of South Asia". University Grants Commission of Bangladesh.
  3. ↑ "Private university students lift highway siege". bdnews24.com. 26 July 2010.
  4. ↑ Harun ur Rashid (22 January 2018). "ACC to probe University of South Asia documents". The Independent. Dhaka.
  5. ↑ Chowdhury, Noman (19 August 2017). "Many private varsities still running illegally". Daily Sun.
  6. ↑ Chowdhury, Noman (25 September 2017). "12 private varsities run by 50pc part-timers". Daily Sun.
  7. ↑ Akhter, Shahin (4 August 2022). "Many univs run with no or few professors". New Age.
  8. ↑ Salman, Md Solamain (9 June 2019). "Huge disparity between growth and research spending". Daily Sun.
  9. ↑ Salman, Md Solamain (18 January 2020). "Universities lack research culture". Daily Sun.
  10. ↑ "UGC: No new students without permanent campus". Dhaka Tribune. 31 December 2022.
  11. ↑ Habib, Wasim Bin; Adhikary, Tuhin Shubhra (18 November 2016). "Certificates from 18 pvt universities unacceptable". The Daily Star.
  12. ↑ ইউনিভার্সিটি অব সাউথ এশিয়ায় উপাচার্য ও সহ-উপাচার্যের যোগদান. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). 19 June 2017.
  13. ↑ "Message From VC". University of South Asia.
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