Shahjalal University of Science and Technology

The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) is a public research university on a 320-acre campus at Kumargaon in Sylhet, Bangladesh, about six kilometres from the centre of Sylhet city.沙阿贾拉勒科技大学（Shahjalal University of Science and Technology，简称 SUST）是孟加拉国锡尔赫特库马尔冈的一所公立研究型大学，校园占地 320 英亩，距锡尔赫特市中心约 6 公里。

Founded under the University Act No. LXVII of 1986 and opened for teaching in February 1991 with three departments, it was Bangladesh's first university devoted to the physical sciences and engineering and the first in the country to adopt the American credit system.该校依 1986 年第 67 号大学法案设立，1991 年 2 月以三个系开始教学，是孟加拉国第一所以物理科学与工程为重点的大学，也是该国第一所采用美国学分制的大学。

It now comprises seven schools, 28 departments and two institutes, enrols 12,596 students, reports 566 full-time-equivalent academic staff, and appears in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and the 1201–1400 band of the Times Higher Education rankings 2027.该校现设 7 个学院、28 个系和 2 个研究所，有 12596 名学生和 566 名全职等效学术人员，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1401+ 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中位于 1201–1400 区间。

History

• The university was established on 25 August 1986 under the University Act No. LXVII of 1986, on a site at Kumargaon on the eastern edge of Sylhet, in a region of tea estates.该校于 1986 年 8 月 25 日依 1986 年第 67 号大学法案设立，校址位于锡尔赫特东缘、茶园环绕的库马尔冈。

• Banglapedia dates the formal establishment to 1987 while tracing its legal basis to the 1986 act, a discrepancy that reflects the interval between the legislation and the university's actual opening.孟加拉百科把正式建校记为 1987 年，同时将其法律依据追溯到 1986 年法案，这一差异反映了立法与学校实际开办之间的时间间隔。

• Sadruddin Ahmed Chowdhury, a physicist and science educator, was appointed the first vice-chancellor on 1 June 1989 and led the university through the preparations that culminated in its first classes in 1991.物理学家与科学教育家萨德鲁丁·艾哈迈德·乔杜里于 1989 年 6 月 1 日被任命为首任校长，主持了直至 1991 年首批开课的各项筹备工作。

• Teaching began in February 1991 with three departments, physics, chemistry and economics, 13 teachers and 205 students.该校于 1991 年 2 月开始教学，仅设物理、化学与经济学三个系，有 13 名教师和 205 名学生。

• SUST became the template for a national network of specialised science and technology universities, and twelve further STEM universities were subsequently established in Bangladesh by the government.沙阿贾拉勒科技大学成为孟加拉国一批专业科技大学的范本，政府此后在该国又创办了 12 所理工类大学。

• From the 1996–97 session the university replaced the annual term system with semesters and the American credit system in every department, the first Bangladeshi university to do so.自 1996–1997 学年起，该校在所有系以学期制与美国学分制取代学年制，是孟加拉国第一所这样做的大学。

• The first convocation was held on 29 April 1998, twelve years after the founding act and seven years after the first classes, honouring the pioneer cohorts of the three original departments.首届毕业典礼于 1998 年 4 月 29 日举行，距建校法案通过已 12 年，距首轮授课已 7 年，授予了三个创始系的首批毕业生学位。

• In 1999 the university hosted the third International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, an early sign of the computing strength that later produced its software engineering programme.1999 年，该校主办了第三届计算机与信息技术国际会议，这是其计算机学科实力的早期标志，后来该优势催生了软件工程专业。

• The first Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad was held at SUST in 2004, beginning a national competition that the university continued to host and support in later years.首届孟加拉国数学奥林匹克于 2004 年在沙阿贾拉勒科技大学举行，开启了这项全国竞赛，该校此后继续承办与支持相关赛事。

• The second convocation took place on 6 December 2007, by which time the university had grown well beyond its three founding departments and had added engineering, architecture and social science programmes.第二届毕业典礼于 2007 年 12 月 6 日举行，当时学校已远超建校时的三个系，增设了工程、建筑与社会科学等专业。

• On 13 September 2009 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched the SMS-based automated admission registration system devised by SUST students, a paperless process that let applicants register around the clock by mobile phone.2009 年 9 月 13 日，总理谢赫·哈西娜启动了由该校学生设计的短信自动招生报名系统，这一无纸化流程让考生可以全天候通过手机报名。

• The innovation won the university an mBillionth Award in a South Asian competition and Bangladesh's National Award for E-Content and ICT for Development in 2010, and most public universities later adopted the system.这项创新为学校赢得 2010 年南亚 mBillionth 奖以及孟加拉国电子内容与信息通信发展国家奖，此后多数公立大学都采用了该系统。

• By 2011, according to Banglapedia, SUST had expanded to seven schools, 25 departments and one institute with 424 teachers and 9,262 students, plus six affiliated medical colleges enrolling 2,744 students.据孟加拉百科记载，到 2011 年该校已扩展至 7 个学院、25 个系和 1 个研究所，有 424 名教师和 9262 名学生，另有 6 所附属医学院共 2744 名学生。

• In 2015 the physics research centre reported a low-cost technique for detecting cancer, one of several applied projects that carried the university's research reputation beyond pure science.2015 年，该校物理研究中心报告了一种低成本癌症检测技术，这是把学校科研声誉从纯科学扩展到应用领域的项目之一。

• In 2017 SUST spent BDT 137 million on research, the highest research expenditure of any university in Bangladesh and almost double the second-placed institution, and it received a National ICT Award the same year.2017 年，该校科研支出达 1.37 亿塔卡，为孟加拉国各大学之冠，几乎是第二名机构的两倍，同年还获得国家信息通信技术奖。

• A SUST team became world champion of the NASA Space Apps Challenge in 2018 in a field of 1,395 local winning teams from around the world.2018 年，该校一支队伍在 1395 支来自全球的地方赛区冠军队伍中脱颖而出，夺得 2018 年国际黑客松 NASA Space Apps Challenge 世界冠军。

• In 2019 the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council approved BDT 9.88 billion, about US$117 million, for 20 SUST development projects, and the university hosted Bangladesh's first International Convention of Vice-Chancellors.2019 年，国家经济委员会执行委员会批准 98.8 亿塔卡（约 1.17 亿美元）用于该校 20 个发展项目，学校还主办了孟加拉国首届大学校长国际会议。

• The third convocation was held on 8 January 2020, the first in more than twelve years, and it honoured graduates from across the university's schools.第三届毕业典礼于 2020 年 1 月 8 日举行，是 2007 年之后十余年来的首次，向学校各学院的毕业生颁发了学位。

• A. M. Sarwaruddin Chowdhury became vice-chancellor on 22 September 2024, and Md. Khairul Islam succeeded him on 24 May 2026, the two most recent changes in the vice-chancellorship.2024 年 9 月 22 日，A. M. 萨尔瓦鲁丁·乔杜里出任校长，2026 年 5 月 24 日由 Md. 凯鲁尔·伊斯拉姆接任，这是该校最近两次校长更替。

Academics

• SUST is led by a vice-chancellor and is affiliated with the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, while the President of Bangladesh serves as chancellor ex officio.该校由校长领导，隶属于孟加拉国大学拨款委员会，校监由孟加拉国总统兼任。

• Seven schools house 28 departments and two institutes, the largest being the School of Applied Sciences and Technology with architecture, chemical and polymer, civil and environmental, computer science, electrical, food and tea, industrial, mechanical, petroleum and mining, and software engineering departments.7 个学院下设 28 个系和 2 个研究所，其中最大的应用科学与技术学院设有建筑、化学与高分子、土木与环境、计算机科学、电气、食品与茶叶、工业、机械、石油与采矿以及软件工程等系。

• The School of Physical Sciences covers chemistry, geography and environment, mathematics, physics, statistics and oceanography, while the School of Life Sciences contains biochemistry and molecular biology and genetic engineering and biotechnology.物理科学学院涵盖化学、地理与环境、数学、物理、统计与海洋学，生命科学学院则设生物化学与分子生物学以及遗传工程与生物技术。

• The School of Social Sciences teaches anthropology, Bangla, economics, English, political studies, public administration, social work and sociology, and the smaller schools cover forestry, business administration and medical sciences.社会科学学院教授人类学、孟加拉语、经济学、英语、政治研究、公共管理、社会工作与社会学，较小的学院则负责林业、工商管理与医学科学。

• The School of Medical Sciences supervises six affiliated medical colleges, and two institutes, the Institute of Information and Communication Technology and the Institute of Modern Languages, offer a software engineering degree and certificate or diploma courses in seven languages.医学科学学院管理 6 所附属医学院，信息与通信技术研究所和现代语言研究所分别提供软件工程学位以及七种语言的语言证书与文凭课程。

• SUST was the first public university in Bangladesh to offer an undergraduate degree in software engineering, the second oldest in chemical, computer science, industrial and production, and petroleum and mining engineering, and the third oldest in architecture, food engineering and tea technology, and genetic engineering.该校是孟加拉国第一所开设软件工程本科的公立大学，在化学工程、计算机科学、工业与生产工程以及石油与采矿工程方面历史第二悠久，在建筑、食品工程与茶叶技术以及遗传工程方面历史第三悠久。

• All undergraduates follow an integrated honours curriculum with a common core, and since 1996–97 the university has used semesters and the American credit system instead of annual examinations.所有本科生都修读含共同核心的整合荣誉课程，自 1996–1997 学年起学校以学期制与美国学分制取代年度考试。

• Bangla, English and computer courses are compulsory for every student, alongside the departmental curriculum.孟加拉语、英语与计算机课程对所有学生必修，与各系专业课程并行修读。

• The Second Major Program, the first and only one in Bangladesh, lets students in four schools add 36 credits of core courses from another department after passing an aptitude test at the end of their first year.该校的「第二主修」项目为孟加拉国首创且唯一，允许四个学院的学生在一年级末通过能力测试后，加修另一系 36 学分的核心课程。

• Electrical and electronic engineering, physics and mathematics currently offer second majors, while computer science and engineering, which pioneered the scheme, has stopped admitting new second-major students.目前电气与电子工程、物理与数学三个系提供第二主修，最早开创该方案的计算机科学与工程系则已停止招收新的第二主修学生。

• Admission is highly competitive, with 76,068 candidates competing for 1,448 undergraduate seats in 2018–19, an acceptance rate of 1.90 per cent, and 71,018 candidates for 1,703 seats in 2019–20.该校招生竞争激烈，2018–2019 学年有 76068 人竞争 1448 个本科名额，录取率仅 1.90%，2019–2020 学年则有 71018 人竞争 1703 个名额。

• The university reports 12,596 students, among them 6,726 undergraduates, 1,870 postgraduates and 4,000 students at affiliated colleges, supported by 566 full-time-equivalent academic staff and 772 administrative staff.该校报告有 12596 名学生，其中本科生 6726 人、研究生 1870 人、附属学院学生 4000 人，配有 566 名全职等效学术人员与 772 名行政人员。

• The Central Library holds about 180,000 volumes and 300 current periodical subscriptions, adds roughly 2,000 volumes a year, provides an online public access catalogue and networked e-books, and is supplemented by departmental and hall libraries.中央图书馆藏有约 18 万册图书与 300 种现刊，每年新增约 2000 册，提供联机公共目录与局域网电子书，并辅以各系与各宿舍楼的图书室。

• The civil and environmental engineering centre for research, testing and consultancy, founded in 2003, designed a treatment plant that removes iron concentrations above 11 milligrams per litre from Sylhet groundwater and now operates in local hotels.土木与环境工程的研究、检测与咨询中心成立于 2003 年，设计了一套去除锡尔赫特地下水中每升 11 毫克以上铁含量的处理装置，目前已在当地酒店运行。

• The architecture centre works on urban planning, conservation, low-cost housing and the architecture of Bengal, and the department, the third oldest public architecture school in Bangladesh, collaborates with TU Delft and Birmingham City University.建筑研究中心从事城市规划、历史保护、低成本住房与孟加拉地域建筑研究，该系是孟加拉国历史第三悠久的公立建筑学院，并与代尔夫特理工大学和伯明翰城市大学合作。

• The computer science centre researches optical character recognition, parallel processing, cluster computing, Bangla computerisation and natural language processing, while the physics centre covers nuclear physics, nonlinear optics, neutron scattering and condensed matter.计算机研究中心研究光学字符识别、并行处理、集群计算、孟加拉语信息化与自然语言处理，物理中心则涵盖核物理、非线性光学、中子散射与凝聚态物理。

Campus

• The main campus occupies 320 acres of flat, green land at Kumargaon, about six kilometres from Sylhet city centre, and is entered by a one-kilometre tree-lined avenue known as Kilo Road.主校区位于库马尔冈，占地 320 英亩，地势平坦、绿意浓密，距锡尔赫特市中心约 6 公里，一条名为「基洛路」的 1 公里林荫道是校园入口。

• The Shahid Minar, the university's martyrs' memorial, stands on the top of a small tree-covered hill and is the focus of observances on 21 February, International Mother Language Day, when cultural groups stage programmes on the site.该校的烈士纪念碑「沙希德纪念塔」坐落于一座树木覆盖的小丘顶上，是 2 月 21 日国际母语日纪念活动的中心，届时文化团体在此演出。

• Six halls of residence, Shah Paran, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Syed Mujtaba Ali, Shahid Jononi Jahanara Imam, Begum Sirajunnesa Chowdhury and Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, house students on campus and give the university a residential character.校内 6 座学生宿舍为沙赫帕兰、邦加班杜·谢赫·穆吉布·拉赫曼、赛义德·穆杰塔巴·阿里、沙希德·乔诺尼·贾哈纳拉·伊玛目、贝古姆·西拉朱内萨·乔杜里与贝古姆·法齐拉通内萨·穆吉布，赋予学校浓厚的住宿制氛围。

• Because on-campus places are limited, the authorities also run several private halls near the campus, most of them reserved for women, and many students rent rooms in the surrounding Kumargaon and Sylhet neighbourhoods.由于校内床位有限，校方还在校园附近经营数座私营宿舍，多数留给女生，许多学生则在库马尔冈与锡尔赫特周边社区租房。

• The Central Library occupies a distinctive triangular building with reading halls, free internet browsing, a rental collection and group study space, and it anchors the academic core of the campus.中央图书馆位于一栋造型独特的三角形建筑内，设阅览大厅、免费上网区、租借书库与小组学习空间，是校园学术核心区的标志。

• The campus has a cricket ground, a football ground, a basketball court and a gymnasium beside the student health centre, and its teams compete in inter-departmental and inter-university tournaments throughout the year.校园内设有板球场、足球场、篮球场以及学生健康中心旁的体育馆，校队在全年参加院际与校际比赛。

• A central auditorium, a cafeteria and a university school for the children of staff and local residents make the campus a self-contained neighbourhood on the edge of Sylhet.中央礼堂、食堂以及面向教职工子女与当地居民招生的大学附属学校，使校园成为锡尔赫特城郊一个自成一体的社区。

• Sylhet's setting of tea gardens, the Surma River and the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal, together with Osmani International Airport a short drive away, places the campus in one of Bangladesh's most distinctive landscapes.锡尔赫特的茶园、苏尔马河与哈兹拉特·沙阿贾拉勒圣陵，加上不远的奥斯马尼国际机场，使校园坐落于孟加拉国最具特色的地貌之一。

Reputation

• SUST is placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, an open-ended final band shared by many institutions rather than a single numerical position.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1401+ 区间，这是由多所高校共享的开放式末段区间，而非某个具体名次。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed SUST in the 1201–1400 band for 2027, after the 1201–1500 band it occupied in the 2026 edition, a modest upward shift.泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名在 2027 年版将该校列入 1201–1400 区间，较 2026 年版所处的 1201–1500 区间略有上升。

• SUST does not appear in the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026–2027 or in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, so its global profile rests on the QS and THE listings and on subject-level research metrics.该校未出现在 2026–2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名与 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，因此其国际声誉主要依托 QS 与泰晤士榜单以及学科层面的科研指标。

• In the QS Asia University Rankings the university was placed 337th in the 2026 edition and 342nd in 2025, a regional standing considerably stronger than its global band suggests.在 QS 亚洲大学排名中，该校 2026 年版位列第 337 位，2025 年版位列第 342 位，其地区位次明显强于全球区间所显示的水平。

• The SCImago Institutions Rankings for 2019 placed SUST 610th in the world and 337th in Asia among 3,471 institutions, with separate positions of 445th for research, 493rd for innovation and 241st for societal impact.2019 年 SCImago 机构排名在 3471 所机构中把该校列为世界第 610 位、亚洲第 337 位，科研、创新与社会影响三项分别为第 445、493 与 241 位。

• Webometrics ranked SUST first among Bangladeshi universities in 2015 and third in 2021, reflecting the visibility of its web presence and research output rather than undergraduate selectivity.Webometrics 在 2015 年把该校列为孟加拉国大学第一，2021 年列为第三，这反映的是其网络可见度与科研产出，而非本科录取难度。

• Uniranks placed SUST fifth in Bangladesh in its 2026 table, one of several national assessments that rank it among the country's leading public universities.Uniranks 在 2026 年榜单中把该校列为孟加拉国第五，这是将其列入全国领先公立大学之列的多个国内评估之一。

• Its 2017 research spending of BDT 137 million was the highest of any Bangladeshi university and almost twice that of the next institution, a rare distinction for a university outside Dhaka.该校 2017 年 1.37 亿塔卡的科研支出居孟加拉国各大学之首，几乎是第二名机构的两倍，对一所位于达卡之外的高校而言颇为难得。

• Victories in the 2018 NASA Space Apps Challenge and a 15th-place finish at the 2019 International Theoretical Physics Olympiad, where seven SUST teams reached the 88-team final, gave it unusual international visibility for a small university.该校在 2018 年 NASA Space Apps Challenge 夺冠，并在 2019 年国际理论物理奥林匹克中取得第 15 名、有 7 支队伍进入 88 强决赛，为这所规模不大的大学带来了罕见的国际曝光。

• Because of its early role in science and engineering education, SUST is sometimes called the Stanford of the east, and its example encouraged the creation of twelve more STEM universities in Bangladesh.由于在科学与工程教育方面的开创作用，该校有时被称为「东方斯坦福」，其范例推动孟加拉国又创建了 12 所理工类大学。

Student life

• The annual three-day CSE Carnival, held since 2011, combines a programming contest, a software development competition and workshops, and in 2015 drew 1,000 students in 145 teams from 46 universities.自 2011 年起举办的年度计算机科学与工程嘉年华持续三天，包含程序设计竞赛、软件开发比赛与工作坊，2015 年吸引了 46 所大学的 145 支队伍、共 1000 名学生。

• Student organisations range from Theater SUST, founded in 1997, and the Chokh Film Society, founded in 1996, to the Shahjalal University Speakers' Club, SUST Science Arena and the volunteering group Swapnotthan.学生组织既有 1997 年成立的 SUST 剧社与 1996 年成立的乔克电影社，也有沙阿贾拉勒大学演讲者俱乐部、SUST 科学竞技场与志愿服务团体斯瓦普诺坦。

• The Pohela Boishakh procession, for which architecture students build large masks, and the cultural programmes at the Shahid Minar are the most visible moments of campus public life.孟加拉新年（Pohela Boishakh）游行由建筑系学生制作大型面具，配合烈士纪念碑前的文化活动，是校园公共生活最醒目的时刻。

• SUST is the only Bangladeshi university with professional cricket and football leagues, and its students also compete in handball, volleyball and basketball, with women's and teachers' teams taking part in annual tournaments.该校是孟加拉国唯一拥有职业板球与足球联赛的大学，学生也参加手球、排球与篮球比赛，女子队与教师队同样参加年度赛事。

• Each of the six halls maintains its own library, and a significant number of students live privately in the neighbourhoods around the campus.六座宿舍各自设有图书室，同时有大量学生在校园周边社区自行租房居住。

• SUST was the first university in Bangladesh to provide free Wi-Fi across its entire campus, a service available to students and staff in academic buildings, halls and public spaces.该校是孟加拉国第一所在整个校园提供免费无线网络的大学，教学建筑、宿舍与公共空间的学生和教职工均可使用。

• International students, most of them from Nepal and also from India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Afghanistan, China and other Asian countries, study at SUST and at its affiliated medical colleges.该校及其附属医学院接收国际学生，其中多数来自尼泊尔，也有来自印度、巴基斯坦、沙特阿拉伯、斯里兰卡、不丹、阿富汗、中国等亚洲国家的学生。

• Two Bangladesh National Cadet Corps platoons, one male and one female, train on campus, and cadets may take military science as an auxiliary subject alongside their degrees.校内有两支孟加拉国国家学员军团分队，男女各一，学员可在学位课程之外把军事科学作为辅修科目。

Notable people

• Sadruddin Ahmed Chowdhury, a physicist and educator, was the university's first vice-chancellor and is remembered as its principal academic architect during the difficult early years.物理学家与教育家萨德鲁丁·艾哈迈德·乔杜里是该校首任校长，被视为学校艰难初创期最主要的学术奠基人。

• Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, a professor in the computer science and engineering department, is one of Bangladesh's best-known science fiction writers and a public voice on science education.计算机科学与工程系教授穆罕默德·扎法尔·伊克巴尔是孟加拉国最知名的科幻作家之一，也是科学教育领域的公共意见领袖。

• Arun Kumar Basak was a founding professor of the physics department and later became professor emeritus of physics at the University of Rajshahi.阿伦·库马尔·巴萨克是物理系的创始教授，后来成为拉杰沙希大学物理学荣休教授。

• Mustafizur Rahman, a distinguished professor, is known for micro and nano machining and has held posts at the National University of Singapore, Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Florida.杰出教授穆斯塔菲祖尔·拉赫曼以微纳加工研究著称，曾在新加坡国立大学、东京工业大学与佛罗里达大学任职。

• Muhammad Younus, a professor at SUST, has conducted research at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London and is part of the university's materials and physical sciences group.该校教授穆罕默德·尤努斯曾在剑桥大学与帝国理工学院从事研究，是学校材料与物理科学团队的成员。

• Farzana Hussain, an alumna, chairs the mathematics department at Huston–Tillotson University in the United States, one of several graduates who have built academic careers abroad.校友法尔扎纳·侯赛因在美国休斯顿–蒂洛森大学担任数学系主任，是众多在海外建立学术生涯的毕业生之一。

• Muhammad J. A. Shiddiky, an alumnus, is a distinguished professor at Charles Sturt University in Australia.校友穆罕默德·J. A. 希迪基是澳大利亚查尔斯特大学的杰出教授。

• Jagotamoy Das, an alumnus, is a research associate professor at Northwestern University in the United States.校友贾戈塔莫伊·达斯是美国西北大学的研究副教授。

• Atiq Zaman, an alumnus, is an associate professor at Curtin University in Australia.校友阿提克·扎曼是澳大利亚科廷大学的副教授。

• Fahad Al Abdullah, an alumnus, is a research associate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, one of a growing number of SUST graduates working in space and data science.校友法哈德·阿尔·阿卜杜拉是美国国家航空航天局戈达德太空飞行中心的研究助理，是该校在航天与数据科学领域工作的毕业生之一。

• Sabir Ismail and Tahmid Hassan Talukdar, both alumni, work as software engineers at Google and as a senior hardware engineer at Apple respectively, part of a large diaspora in the global technology industry.校友萨比尔·伊斯梅尔与塔赫米德·哈桑·塔卢克达尔分别在全球科技企业担任软件工程师与资深硬件工程师，是该校在全球科技行业庞大校友网络的一部分。

• A. M. Sarwaruddin Chowdhury, vice-chancellor from 2024 to 2026, and Md. Khairul Islam, who took office in May 2026, are the two most recent leaders of the university.A. M. 萨尔瓦鲁丁·乔杜里于 2024 年至 2026 年任校长，Md. 凯鲁尔·伊斯拉姆于 2026 年 5 月接任，是学校最近两位领导人。