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Type | Government Funded |
Established | 1869 |
Principal | Professor Shekhor Dostidar |
Vice principal | Professor Rawshan Ara Begum |
Staff | 425 |
Faculty | 23 |
Campus size | 7 acres |
Campus type | Urban |
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Sports | |
Publication | College Magazine (Monthly) |
Newspaper | Biweekly Campus |
Number of Clubs | 03 |
Debate Club | CCDC |
Language Club | CCLC |
Science Club | CCSC |
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Chittagong College 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 70,000 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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[edit] 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 1943 honours course in Economics was introduced.
The college suspended its honours programme in 1954 but reintroduced honours courses on English, Bangla, Economics, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in 1959. 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 1963.
From 1956 to 1965 the college experienced enormous infrastructural developments.
When University of Dhaka was established in 1922, this college became registered as Degree college under this university. At present, this college offers Honours and Masters course under National University, Gazipur on 17 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 18,500 students and 170 teachers.
Faculties and Departments
Administrational Map of Chittagong College.
Administrational building of Chittagong College.
This college has two faculties, they areFaculty 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
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