Motto in English Education is Power Principal Professor Jesmin Akter Administrative staff 400 Total enrollment 17,000 (2010) Founded 1869 | Established 1869 (1869) Academic staff 169 Campus size 2 ha Phone +880 31-616045 Colors Black, White | |
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Type Government funded public college Motto শিক্ষাই শক্তি (Education is Power, Bn) Notable alumni Similar Bangladesh National University, University of Chittagong, Tejgaon College, Government Titumir College, Eden Mohila College | ||
Chittagong College (Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম কলেজ ) is a government college in Chittagong, Bangladesh. It is the second college established in Bangladesh after Dhaka College.
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History
Having begun as Chittagong District school in 1836, it became an intermediate college in 1869. The first principal was J C Bose. It started providing science education in intermediate section from the 1909. The institute became a graduation college in 1910 after University of Calcutta had recognized it as a first class degree college. From then it started providing honours degrees on Arabic, Bengali, Pali, Sanskrit, History, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. From 1919 it started courses on English, Economics, and Philosophy. In 1926, A. K. Fazlul Huq established Muslim Chattrabash which is now known as Sher-e-Bangla Chattrabas. The students of this institution participated in Bengali Education movement in 1962 and Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
Scholars who have taught here include Surendranath Dasgupta, Beni Madhab Das, Janardan Chakravarti, Bhabatosh Dutta, Subodh Sengupta, Jogeshchandra Singha, Mansur Uddin, Motahar Hossain Chowdhury, Dr. Muhammad Enamul Hoque Chowdhury, Momotazuddin Ahmed and Dr. Muhammad Yunus.
Faculties and departments
The college teaches honours and offers master's degrees in 22 subjects. It is continuing its intermediate course. The college has five academic buildings, a library with 60,000 books, mosque, and auditorium. The college has two new academic buildings used as a foreign language teaching inclusive arts and an ICT (information and communication technology ) lab based building.
The college has two faculties:
Faculty of Arts & social science
The faculty comprises the following departments:
Faculty of Science
The faculty comprises the following departments:
Library
Chittagong College has one of the oldest libraries in Bangladesh. There are around 60,000 books. Each department has a library for Honours and Masters students.
Botanical Garden
The Botanical Garden inside college campus is maintained by the Department of Botany. It has some rare species of Angiosperm plants notably Cycas.
Zoological Museum
The Zoological Museum is maintained by the Department of Zoology.
Student dormitories
There are three male and one female student dormitories.
College ground
The college has a large ground known as Parade Ground. In this five acre ground students from the college and from other colleges play cricket, football, and volleyball. BNCC (Bangladesh National Cadet Corps) use the ground.