American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)

American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), in Bengali আমেরিকান ইন্টারন্যাশনাল ইউনিভার্সিটি-বাংলাদেশ, is a private research university in Dhaka founded in 1994 and known by its acronym AIUB.孟加拉国美国国际大学（American International University-Bangladesh，孟加拉语：আমেরিকান ইন্টারন্যাশনাল ইউনিভার্সিটি-বাংলাদেশ，简称 AIUB）是达卡一所私立研究型大学，1994 年创办。

It began in 1994 as AMA International University Bangladesh, a joint venture with the Philippine AMA Computer University, was renamed in 2001 and has occupied its permanent campus at Kuratoli in Kuril since 2017.该校 1994 年以「AMA 孟加拉国际大学」之名创立，是菲律宾 AMA 计算机大学的合办项目，2001 年改用现名，2017 年起迁入库里尔库拉托利的永久校区。

AIUB teaches about 36,900 undergraduates and more than 3,500 postgraduates through five faculties, and it sits in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education ranking for 2027.该校通过五个学院培养约 36900 名本科生与 3500 余名研究生，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1401+ 并列区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 801 至 1000 区间。

History

• Private higher education became legal in Bangladesh only with the Private University Act of 1992, which ended the state monopoly and allowed non-government universities to award degrees under University Grants Commission supervision.孟加拉国的私立高等教育直到 1992 年《私立大学法》颁布才获得合法地位，该法终结了国家垄断，允许非政府大学在大学拨款委员会监管下授予学位。
• AIUB was founded in 1994 as AMA International University Bangladesh, a joint venture between the Philippine AMA Computer University and the Dhaka initiator Anwarul Abedin, who became its founder chairman, and it was registered under the 1992 private-university law.AIUB 于 1994 年以「AMA 孟加拉国际大学」之名创办，由菲律宾 AMA 计算机大学与达卡发起人安瓦鲁尔·阿贝丁合资设立，后者出任创始董事长，学校依据 1992 年私立大学法注册。
• Teaching began in 1995 at a first campus in Mohakhali, with computer science as the founding programme, at a time when Bangladesh had only a handful of private universities.1995 年学校在莫哈卡利的第一处校区开课，以计算机科学为创校专业，当时孟加拉国的私立大学还屈指可数。
• As demand grew the university moved to Banani, where it remained for more than a decade while adding business, engineering and social-science programmes.随着需求增长，学校迁往巴纳尼，并在那里办学十余年，其间陆续增设商科、工程与社会科学专业。
• The Philippine partner later withdrew from the venture, and in 2001 the institution was renamed American International University-Bangladesh to reflect its independent, American-style curriculum.菲律宾合作方此后退出，2001 年学校更名为孟加拉国美国国际大学，以体现其独立办学与美式课程取向。
• The first convocation was held in 2001 at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon hotel in Dhaka, and convocations have followed almost every year since, reaching the twenty-third in 2025.首届毕业典礼于 2001 年在达卡泛太平洋索纳尔冈酒店举行，此后几乎每年举办，至 2025 年已举行至第 23 届。
• In 2001 an AIUB team also qualified for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest world finals through a wild-card place after finishing second at the Kanpur regional site.2001 年，AIUB 代表队还在 ACM 国际大学生程序设计竞赛坎普尔赛区获得第二名，并凭外卡晋级全球总决赛。
• The AIUB Journal of Science and Engineering appeared in 2002, and the university has since published three issues a year of its science and business journals without interruption.2002 年《AIUB 科学与工程杂志》创刊，此后学校的科学与商业类期刊每年稳定出版三期，未曾中断。
• The Private University Act of 2010 tightened accreditation, governance and land requirements for private universities, and AIUB moved its academic planning towards external programme accreditation.2010 年《私立大学法》收紧了私立大学的认证、治理与用地要求，AIUB 由此把学科建设转向外部专业认证。
• By 2012 the university had announced a permanent campus project on Kuratoli Road in Kuril, designed to replace the rented premises in Mohakhali and Banani.到 2012 年，学校已公布在库里尔库拉托利路建设永久校区的计划，用以取代莫哈卡利与巴纳尼的租赁校舍。
• Construction was under way by 2014 and the move was completed in 2017, ending twenty-two years in rented buildings and giving every faculty a single address for the first time.工程在 2014 年前后动工，2017 年完成搬迁，终结了二十二年的租校历史，也让所有学院第一次拥有同一个地址。
• Between 2001 and 2025 the university held twenty-three convocations, close to one a year, and its cumulative graduate roll passed forty thousand.2001 年至 2025 年间，学校共举行 23 届毕业典礼，几乎每年一届，累计毕业生超过四万人。
• In 2017 AIUB moved into the permanent campus at 408/1 Kuratoli, Khilkhet, a purpose-built complex whose glass-covered central globe became the university's visual signature.2017 年，AIUB 迁入位于基尔凯特库拉托利 408/1 号的永久校区，这座专门建造的建筑群以覆玻璃的中央球体成为学校的视觉标志。
• Also in 2017 the university revised its grading system for the second time, applying the new letter-grade scale to students entering from the Spring 2016-17 term onward.同样在 2017 年，学校第二次修订成绩评定制度，新等级制适用于 2016 至 2017 学年春季学期及以后入学的学生。
• From 2018 the annual convocation was held on the permanent campus rather than in a city hotel, a change that turned graduation into a campus-wide event.自 2018 年起，年度毕业典礼改在永久校区而非市区酒店举行，毕业由此成为全校性的活动。
• By 2021-22 the university employed 953 full-time staff, including more than 510 academic staff, of whom 121 held doctorates.至 2021 至 2022 学年，学校有 953 名全职教职工，其中学术人员 510 余人，121 人拥有博士学位。
• In 2022-23 it enrolled 36,911 undergraduates and more than 3,500 postgraduates, making it one of the largest private universities in Bangladesh.2022 至 2023 学年，学校在读本科生 36911 人、研究生 3500 余人，是孟加拉国规模最大的私立大学之一。
• Saiful Islam, a computer scientist, was appointed vice-chancellor on 23 May 2024, with the president of Bangladesh serving as chancellor ex officio.计算机科学家赛富尔·伊斯兰于 2024 年 5 月 23 日就任副校长，孟加拉国总统依职权担任校监。
• The twenty-third convocation in 2025 brought the cumulative number of graduates to 41,226, a figure the university uses to measure its first three decades.2025 年举行的第 23 届毕业典礼使累计毕业生人数达到 41226 人，学校以此衡量其最初三十年的办学成果。
• Its trajectory from a single computer-science programme to five faculties mirrors the growth of Dhaka's private sector, which now enrols a large share of Bangladeshi students.从单一计算机科学专业发展为五个学院，这一轨迹与达卡私立高教部门的扩张同步，后者如今招收了孟加拉国相当比例的学生。
• The campus in Khilkhet places the university in Dhaka's northern growth corridor, between the Bashundhara residential district and the airport road, an area that filled with universities and apartments after 2000.基尔凯特的校区使学校落在达卡北部扩展带上，介于巴顺达拉住宅区与机场路之间，这一带在 2000 年之后迅速聚集了大学与公寓。

Academics

• Teaching is organised in five faculties: Arts and Social Sciences, Business Administration, Engineering, Science and Technology, and Health and Life Sciences, each offering undergraduate and graduate degrees.教学由五个学院承担：文与社会科学学院、工商管理学院、工程学院、科学与技术学院、健康与生命科学学院，各学院均开设本科与研究生课程。
• All programmes are taught in English, and the academic year runs on two 17-week regular semesters, Fall and Spring, with an optional 12-week summer term.全部课程以英语授课，学年由秋季与春季两个 17 周的常规学期构成，另设可选的 12 周夏季学期。
• The minimum cumulative grade point average for graduation is 2.50 in every undergraduate and graduate programme, and the current scale was introduced in 2017.所有本科与研究生专业的最低毕业累积平均绩点为 2.50，现行等级制于 2017 年启用。
• The Faculty of Engineering teaches computer science, electrical and electronic engineering, computer engineering, industrial and production engineering, and computer networks and cyber security.工程学院开设计算机科学、电气与电子工程、计算机工程、工业与生产工程，以及计算机网络与网络安全等专业。
• The Faculty of Science and Technology covers mathematics, physics, chemistry and biochemistry and molecular biology, and supplies the service courses taken by engineering students.科学与技术学院涵盖数学、物理、化学以及生物化学与分子生物学，并承担工程类学生的基础课程。
• The Faculty of Business Administration offers BBA and MBA programmes and holds ACBSP accreditation, which ties its curriculum to international business-school standards.工商管理学院开设工商管理学士与硕士项目，并持有 ACBSP 认证，使其课程与国际商学院标准对接。
• The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences carries English, economics, law and media subjects, and its law graduates are eligible for enrolment with the Bangladesh Bar Council.文与社会科学学院承担英语、经济学、法律与媒体类学科，其法学毕业生可向孟加拉国律师协会申请执业资格。
• The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences is the newest faculty and reflects the growth of biomedical and public-health teaching in Bangladesh's private sector.健康与生命科学学院是五院中最新的一个，反映了孟加拉国私立部门在生物医学与公共卫生教学上的扩张。
• More than 510 full-time academic staff teach at AIUB, 121 of them holding doctorates, and the university reports 953 full-time employees in total for 2021-22.AIUB 有 510 余名全职学术人员任教，其中 121 人拥有博士学位，学校公布 2021 至 2022 学年全职员工总数为 953 人。
• The AIUB Journal of Science and Engineering has been Scopus-indexed and ranked Q4 by SCImago, a rare distinction for a journal published by a Bangladeshi private university.《AIUB 科学与工程杂志》已被 Scopus 收录并在 SCImago 排名中列为 Q4，这对孟加拉国私立大学主办的期刊而言相当少见。
• The AIUB Journal of Business and Economics and the AIUB Bus Econ Working Paper Series, linked to RePEc and EconPapers, made AIUB the first Bangladeshi institution with an online working-paper series.《AIUB 商业与经济杂志》以及与 RePEc、EconPapers 对接的 AIUB 商业经济工作论文系列，使该校成为孟加拉国首个拥有在线工作论文系列的机构。
• The Faculty of Business Administration hosts the AIUB International Conference on Business and Management, which brings regional academics to Dhaka.工商管理学院主办 AIUB 国际商业与管理会议，吸引区域内学者齐聚达卡。
• Admission is selective: applicants sit a written test and a viva, and international applicants must show TOEFL, IELTS, SAT, GRE or GMAT scores as evidence of English proficiency.录取具有选拔性：申请者须参加笔试与面试，国际申请者还需提供托福、雅思、SAT、GRE 或 GMAT 成绩以证明英语能力。
• Scholarships cover full or partial tuition waivers for incoming and continuing students, and the children of freedom fighters receive a 100 per cent waiver if they maintain a 3.50 CGPA.奖学金为新生与在校生提供全额或部分学费减免，自由战士子女在保持 3.50 累积绩点的前提下可获全额减免。
• Graduate study expanded from the 2000s onward, and master's degrees are now offered in business, computer science, engineering and social-science fields.研究生教育自 2000 年代起扩张，目前在商科、计算机科学、工程与社会科学领域均开设硕士项目。
• The university's own teaching hospital partnership and health faculty place clinical training in Dhaka's private hospital network rather than on a single university hospital campus.学校依托与私立医院的合作及健康学院，把临床训练安排在达卡的私立医院网络中，而非单一的大学附属医院园区。
• Class sizes are supported by a permanent campus built for large cohorts, with laboratories for computing, electronics, civil works and food analysis.永久校区按大规模招生设计，配备计算、电子、土木与食品分析等实验室，以支撑大班教学。
• Computer science is taught in three named streams, CSE, computer networks and cyber security (CNCS), and data science (DS), each ending in an internship or a thesis.计算机科学分三个具名方向授课：计算机科学与工程（CSE）、计算机网络与网络安全（CNCS）、数据科学（DS），每个方向都以实习或学位论文收尾。
• Assessment combines mid-term and final examinations with continuous classwork, and transcripts record letter grades with grade points rather than class ranks.考核由期中与期末考试成绩结合平时课业构成，成绩单记录字母等级与绩点，而不采用班级排名。
• Biochemistry and molecular biology recruits through a separate admission slot, which reflects the laboratory-based intake of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences.生物化学与分子生物学专业通过单独的招生场次录取，反映了健康与生命科学学院以实验室训练为主的招生结构。

Campus

• The permanent campus stands at 408/1 Kuratoli, Kuril, Khilkhet, Dhaka 1229, at 23.822 degrees north and 90.427 degrees east, beside the Bashundhara residential area.永久校区位于达卡基尔凯特库拉托利 408/1 号，北纬 23.822 度、东经 90.427 度，紧邻巴顺达拉住宅区。
• The site is urban rather than greenfield: the campus occupies a compact plot in one of Dhaka's densest university districts, with buildings rising vertically instead of spreading out.这一校址属于城市型而非绿地型：校园位于达卡高校最密集的城区之一，建筑向上发展而非横向铺开。
• The glass-covered central globe is the campus landmark, a spherical structure that houses common areas and gives the university its best-known image.覆玻璃的中央球体是校园地标，这座球形结构容纳公共空间，也是学校最广为人知的形象。
• Teaching blocks include the Building D complex and a set of annexes that were used while the permanent campus was being completed.教学建筑包括 D 楼建筑群以及永久校区建成前后使用的一组附楼。
• The campus provides a library, computer laboratories, an auditorium and open playgrounds, the last of which host inter-departmental cricket and football matches.校区设有图书馆、计算机实验室、礼堂与露天运动场，后者承办院际板球与足球赛。
• Because Dhaka's traffic is heavy, the university runs its academic timetable around the city's peak hours, and many students live in nearby Bashundhara and Baridhara.由于达卡交通拥堵，学校的作息安排需绕开城市高峰时段，许多学生住在附近的巴顺达拉与巴里达拉。
• The campus sits on the airport road corridor, about 10 kilometres north of Motijheel and within reach of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.校园位于机场路走廊，距莫蒂吉尔约十公里，距沙阿贾拉勒国际机场不远。
• Earlier homes in Mohakhali and Banani were rented buildings, and the 2017 move ended more than two decades of leased premises.此前的莫哈卡利与巴纳尼校址都是租赁楼宇，2017 年的搬迁终结了二十余年的租校历史。
• The permanent campus was sized for more than 30,000 students, and its construction followed the enrolment growth of the 2010s.永久校区按容纳三万余学生的规模建设，其兴建呼应了 2010 年代的招生增长。
• The move consolidated functions that had been split between Mohakhali and Banani, bringing the library, the examination halls and the science laboratories onto one site.这次搬迁把此前分散在莫哈卡利与巴纳尼的职能集中起来，图书馆、考场与理科实验室自此同处一地。

Reputation

• QS places AIUB in the 1401+ band of the World University Rankings 2027, the open-ended final group that it shares with 101 other institutions.QS 将 AIUB 列入 2027 年世界大学排名的 1401+ 并列区间，这是它与另外 101 所高校共同处于的开放式末段。
• Times Higher Education ranks AIUB in the 801-1000 band for 2027, an unusually strong position for a Bangladeshi private university founded in the 1990s.泰晤士高等教育将 AIUB 列入 2027 年 801 至 1000 区间，对一所 1990 年代创办的孟加拉国私立大学而言，这是相当靠前的位置。
• AIUB does not appear in the 2026-27 U.S. News Best Global Universities list, so no U.S. News position is recorded for that edition.AIUB 未进入 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学榜单，该版次没有对应的名次。
• It is also absent from the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and the university does not claim an ARWU place.该校同样未列入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，学校也未对外宣称拥有 ARWU 名次。
• Its business programmes hold ACBSP accreditation, and its engineering and architecture degrees are recognised by the Institution of Engineers Bangladesh and the Institute of Architects Bangladesh.其商科项目持有 ACBSP 认证，工程与建筑学位则获孟加拉国工程师协会与孟加拉国建筑师协会认可。
• The Scopus-indexed AIUB Journal of Science and Engineering, ranked Q4 by SCImago, is the clearest signal of the university's research ambitions.被 Scopus 收录、在 SCImago 中列为 Q4 的《AIUB 科学与工程杂志》，是该校科研志向最清晰的标志。
• Its 2001 qualification for the ACM ICPC world finals remains the university's best-known competitive achievement and a recruiting point for its computer-science programmes.2001 年晋级 ACM 国际大学生程序设计竞赛全球总决赛，至今仍是该校最知名的竞赛成绩，也是计算机专业招生的卖点。
• Employer visibility is strong in technology and cricket: a senior director at Google and several national cricketers are counted among its alumni.该校毕业生在科技与板球领域的能见度突出：谷歌的一位高级总监与多名国家队板球运动员均出自其门下。
• Its accreditation portfolio spans business through ACBSP, engineering through the Institution of Engineers Bangladesh, architecture through the Institute of Architects Bangladesh and law through the Bangladesh Bar Council.其认证覆盖多个专业领域：商科由 ACBSP 认证，工程由孟加拉国工程师协会认可，建筑由孟加拉国建筑师协会认可，法律则由孟加拉国律师协会认可。
• Among Bangladesh's private universities it is one of the oldest and largest, and it competes with North South University, BRAC University, Independent University, Bangladesh, East West University and Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology for the country's strongest school-leavers.在孟加拉国私立大学中，该校历史最久、规模最大之列，与南北大学、布拉克大学、孟加拉国独立大学、东西大学和阿赫萨努拉科技大学争夺全国最优秀的中学毕业生。
• Its public profile is unusual for a private university of its age, thanks largely to the national cricketers it has graduated and to a technology alumni network that reaches Google's engineering leadership.对一所同龄的私立大学而言，它的公众知名度相当突出，主要得益于培养出的国家队板球运动员，以及延伸到谷歌工程管理层的科技校友网络。

Student life

• The university motto is "Where leaders are created", and it is printed on convocation programmes and campus signage.校训是「Where leaders are created」（培养领导者之地），印在毕业典礼手册与校园标识上。
• The Office of Student Affairs coordinates dozens of clubs that run debates, drama, music, photography and community-service programmes on campus.学生事务处协调数十个社团，在校内开展辩论、戏剧、音乐、摄影与社区服务活动。
• AIUB is the official education partner of the Bangladesh Cricket Board and the Bangladesh Football Federation, and its playgrounds host age-group and inter-university matches.AIUB 是孟加拉国板球委员会与孟加拉国足球协会的官方教育合作伙伴，其运动场承办青少年组与校际比赛。
• Cricket is the dominant campus sport, and the roll of alumni includes national players such as Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah and Liton Das.板球是校园第一运动，校友名册中有沙基布·阿尔·哈桑、马哈穆杜拉与利顿·达斯等国家队球员。
• The convocation, held on campus since 2018, has become the university's main annual ceremony, with 41,226 graduates recorded by the twenty-third edition in 2025.自 2018 年起在校内举行的毕业典礼已成为学校最重要的年度仪式，至 2025 年第 23 届时累计毕业生达 41226 人。
• Programming contests are a campus culture of their own, sustained by the ACM ICPC tradition and by departmental contests in computer science and engineering.程序设计竞赛自成一种校园文化，由 ACM ICPC 传统以及计算机与工程系的赛事共同延续。
• Because the campus is in Khilkhet rather than the old city, student life is organised around the campus itself and the Bashundhara commercial strip rather than around Dhaka's historic centre.由于校园位于基尔凯特而非老城，学生生活围绕校园本身与巴顺达拉商业带展开，而非达卡历史中心。
• Financial aid is part of student life: merit scholarships, need-based aid and the freedom-fighter waiver together support a large share of the student body.资助体系是学生生活的一部分：优秀生奖学金、按需资助与自由战士子女减免共同覆盖了相当比例的学生。
• International students, though a small minority, come mainly from South Asia, the Middle East and Africa attracted by English-medium instruction and lower fees than in the West.国际学生虽属少数，主要来自南亚、中东与非洲，吸引他们的是全英文授课与低于西方的学费。

Notable people

• Anwarul Abedin, the Dhaka initiator of the 1994 venture, served as the university's founder chairman and shaped its early American-style curriculum.安瓦鲁尔·阿贝丁是 1994 年建校的达卡发起人，担任创始董事长，并塑造了学校早期偏美式的课程体系。
• Saiful Islam, a computer scientist, became vice-chancellor in May 2024 and previously led the university's engineering faculty.计算机科学家赛富尔·伊斯兰于 2024 年 5 月出任副校长，此前曾领导该校的工程学院。
• Carmen Zita Lamagna, an academic from the Philippines, served as vice-chancellor and linked AIUB to its AMA origins and to Philippine accreditation practice.来自菲律宾的学者卡门·齐塔·拉马尼亚曾担任副校长，把 AIUB 与其 AMA 渊源及菲律宾的认证实践连接起来。
• AK Abdul Momen, a former foreign minister of Bangladesh, has taught and lectured at the university and is listed among its faculty.孟加拉国前外交部长阿卜杜勒·穆明曾在该校任教与讲学，被列为学校教师。
• Zaheed Sabur, a senior director and distinguished engineer at Google, is among the university's most cited technology alumni.扎希德·萨布尔是谷歌的高级总监与杰出工程师，是该校最受关注的科技界校友之一。
• General Aziz Ahmed, former Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army, is an alumnus of the university.阿齐兹·艾哈迈德上将是孟加拉国陆军前参谋长，也是该校校友。
• Shakib Al Hasan, former captain of the Bangladesh national cricket team and a former member of parliament, studied at AIUB.沙基布·阿尔·哈桑是孟加拉国国家板球队前队长、前国会议员，曾在该校就读。
• Mahmudullah, another former national cricket captain, and the opening batsman Liton Das are both listed among the university's sporting alumni.另一位国家队前队长马哈穆杜拉与开局击球手利顿·达斯都被列为该校体育界校友。
• Aupee Karim, an actress and architect, teaches in the university's architecture and design programmes.女演员兼建筑师奥皮·卡里姆在该校的建筑与设计专业任教。
• Pinaki Bhattacharya, a physician and political activist, is listed among the faculty and has used the university as a platform for public-health commentary.医生与政治活动人士皮纳基·巴塔查里亚被列为该校教师，并以学校为平台发表公共卫生评论。
• Mohammad Shihabul Haque, a former senior scientist at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research, represents the research track among AIUB's academic alumni.穆罕默德·希哈布尔·哈克曾任新加坡科技研究局高级科学家，是该校学术型校友中走科研道路的代表。