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Chittagong College
Chittagong Government College
শিক্ষাই শক্তিEducation is PowerLocation College Road, Chittagong
Chittagong, Bangladesh,Coordinates 22°21′12.73″N 91°50′14.58″E / 22.3535361°N 91.8373833°ECoordinates: 22°21′12.73″N 91°50′14.58″E / 22.3535361°N 91.8373833°E Information Type Government Funded Public College Established 1869 Principal Professor Shekhor Dostidar Vice principal Professor Rawshan Ara Begum Staff 400 Faculty 22 Campus size 6 acres Campus type Urban Color(s) White and Black Sports Football, Cricket, Basketball Publication College Magazine (Yearly) Newspaper Biweekly Campus Number of Clubs 03 Debate Club CCDC Language Club CCLC Science Club CCSC Homepage College Website Chittagong College (Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম কলেজ ) is a well-respected college in Bangladesh. It is also the second college established in Bangladesh after Dhaka College. Having started out as Chittagong District school in 1836, it was upgraded to an Intermediate college in 1869. It started providing science education in intermediate section from the year 1909 and became a graduation college in 1910. Now this college is giving honors and masters degree in 16 subjects.it is also continuing its intermediate course as well.
The college has five academic buildings, library with approximately 60,000 books, mosque, auditorium and other facilities. The sports ground of the college is known to all with its famous name Parade Ground.
Students of the college have made significant contribution in the history of Bangladesh. Also many distinguished scholars have taught here over the years. Among them were Surendranath Dasgupta, Beni Madhab Das, Janardan Chakravarti, Bhabatosh Dutta, Subodh Sengupta, Jogeshchandra Singha, Mansur Uddin, Motahar Hossain Chowdhury, Momotazuddin Ahmed and Dr. Muhammad Yunus.
Chittagong College is officially known also as Chittagong Government College.
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History
Chittagong college was first established as Chittagong Zila School in 1836. It was upgraded as a college in 1869 by offering F.A. (First Arts) course and took its present name Chittagong College. Its academic activity a college began in a Portuguese-merchant built building beside Parade Ground, College Road, Chawkbazar.
Besides F.A. course it also provided education in Law for students to enable them to qualify for leadership examinations. Law education in the college, however, was suspended in 1909.
From 1909 science courses were offered for Higher Secondary Level, then F.A.
In 1912, University of Calcutta registered it as a first grade degree college and allowed it to offer both honours and pass level courses in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. In 1919, honours course in English was introduced. Besides Economics and Philosophy was added as supplementary course from this year.
In 1926, the first student dormitory was established by the eminent politician, then Education minister of Bengal province Sher-E-Bangla A.K.Fazlul Huq. From this year co-education was introduced.
In 1942, honours course in Economics was introduced.
The college suspended its honours programme in 1955 but reintroduced honours courses on English, Bangla, Economics, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in 1960. B.Sc. (Bachelor of Science) courses on Zoology and Botany and B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) /B.Sc. (Bachelor of Science) course on Statistics were introduced in 1962.
From 1955 to 1965 the college experienced enormous infrastructural developments.
When University of Dhaka was established in 1921, this college became registered as Degree college under this university. At present, this college offers Honours and Masters course under National University, Gazipur on 16 different subjects viz, Bangla, English, Economics, Political Science, History, Islamic History and Culture, Philosophy, Sociology, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Mathematics, Statistics, Geography and Psychology.
Presently, the college has 16,500 students and 162 teachers.
Faculties and Departments
Administrational Map of Chittagong College.
Administrational building of Chittagong College.This college has two faculties, they are:
Faculty of Arts & social science
This faculty comprises the following departments:
- Department of Bengali
- Department of English
- Department of Economics
- Department of Political Science
- Department of History
- Department of Islamic History and Culture
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Sociology
- Department of Arabic Studies
- Department of Pali
- Department of Sanskrit
Faculty of Science
This faculty comprises the following departments:
- Department of Physics
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Botany
- Department of Zoology
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Geography
- Department of Psychology
Academic Facilities
Library
Chittagong College has one of the oldest libraries in Bangladesh. There are more than 60,000 books on different subjects.
Besides each department has their own seminar library for Honours and Masters students.
Botanical Garden
There is a medium sized Botanical Garden inside college campus. This garden is maintained by Department of Botany. This is a rich botanical garden in the sense that it has some rare species of Angiosperm plants notably Cycas.
Zoological Museum
The Zoological Museum is maintained by Department of Zoology.
College facility
Student dormitories
There are three male and one female student dormitories.
- Saheed Sohrawordy Dormitory: "A" block is for Muslim students and "B" block is for non-Muslim students.
- Sher-E-Bangla Dormitory
- Dr. Abdus Sabur Dormitory: For Honours and Masters students.
- Hazrat Khadizatul Kobra (R) Dormitory: For female students.
College ground
The college has a large ground known as Parade Ground. This name bears its historical importance.
Co-curricular Activities
- B.N.C.C.: The college has head quarters of Karnaphuly battalion-2 of Bangladesh National Cadet Corp from 1956.
- Rover Scout
- CDS: Chittagong College Debating Club.
- Math Club
Additional facilities
- A two-storied mosque
- Common rooms: Different common rooms for male and female students. The common room for female students is a two-storied building.
- Canteen: Between auditorium and Administrative Building.
- Gymnasium
- Post-office
- Bank: Pubali Bank, Chittagong College branch
Notable alumni and faculty
- Pronob Kumar Chakraborty, famous Professor of Zoology,
- Surendranath Dasgupta
- Janardan Chakravarti
- Bhabatosh Dutta
- Subodh Sengupta
- Jogeshchandra Singha
- Mansur Uddin
- Motahar Hossain Chowdhury
- Momotazuddin Ahmed
- Dr.Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate (Intermediate 1957, Lecturer 1961-65)
- Priyadaranjan Roy
- Habibullah Bahar
- Ashab Uddin Ahmed
- Ahmed Sharif
- Prof. Mohammad Khaled
- Captain Advocate Fazlul Karim
External links
- Article on Chittagong College from Banglapedia
- Chittagong College Ex-students Alumni Association
- Chittagong College 2001 HSC Batch Students in Yahoogroup
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- Colleges in Bangladesh
- Academic institutions formerly affiliated with the University of Calcutta
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