University of Rajshahi

The University of Rajshahi, usually shortened to Rajshahi University or RU, is a public research university at Motihar on the eastern edge of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, and the second oldest university in the country after the University of Dhaka拉吉沙希大学（University of Rajshahi，简称 RU）是位于孟加拉国拉吉沙希市东缘莫蒂哈尔的公立研究型大学，也是该国仅次于达卡大学的第二古老大学。

It was created by the Rajshahi University Act of 1953, which the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly passed on 31 March 1953, opened on 6 July 1953 with 161 students, and today enrols more than 25,000 students in 12 faculties and 59 departments学校依据 1953 年《拉吉沙希大学法》设立，该法由东巴基斯坦省议会于 1953 年 3 月 31 日通过，同年 7 月 6 日开学时仅有 161 名学生，如今在 12 个学院、59 个系中就读的学生超过 2.5 万人。

QS placed it in the 1401+ band of the 2027 world ranking, Times Higher Education lists it in the 1001-1200 band for 2027, and U.S. News ranked it 612th in its 2026-2027 global table在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，学校位列 1401+ 并列区间，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入 1001–1200 区间，2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单则将其排在第 612 位。

History

• The first formal proposal for a university in the region came in 1917, when Calcutta University set up the Sadler Commission to review the university system in Bengal, although its recommendations produced no immediate result该地区创办大学的首个正式动议出现在 1917 年，加尔各答大学当时设立萨德勒委员会审查孟加拉的大学体系，但委员会的建议并未立即产生结果。
• The University of Dhaka, founded in 1921, remained the only university in East Bengal for a generation, and students of Rajshahi College led the campaign for a second one in the north of the province1921 年成立的达卡大学在此后一代人的时间里都是东孟加拉唯一的一所大学，拉吉沙希学院的学生则带头发起了在省北部再办一所大学的运动。
• After 1947 the grievance sharpened when two universities were opened quickly in West Pakistan with funds diverted from East Bengal, while the east still had no new institution1947 年之后，西巴基斯坦利用从东孟加拉调拨的资金迅速开办了两所大学，而东孟加拉仍未获得新的大学，当地的不满由此加深。
• On 31 March 1953 the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly passed the Rajshahi University Act, East Bengal Act XV of 1953, and Rajshahi was chosen as the site of the second university in East Bengal1953 年 3 月 31 日，东巴基斯坦省议会通过《拉吉沙希大学法》（1953 年东孟加拉第十五号法），拉吉沙希被选定为东孟加拉第二所大学的所在地。
• Itrat Hossain Zuberi, then principal of Rajshahi College, was appointed the first vice-chancellor and is remembered as a teacher of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Islamia College in Calcutta时任拉吉沙希学院院长的伊特拉特·侯赛因·祖贝里被任命为首任校长，他因曾在加尔各答伊斯兰学院教过谢赫·穆吉布·拉赫曼而为后人所记。
• The university opened on 6 July 1953 in borrowed premises, using the local Circuit House and Boro Kuthi, an eighteenth-century Dutch trading post, while a local school, B B Hindu Academy, housed its library, teachers' lounge and medical centre学校于 1953 年 7 月 6 日在借用场所开学，使用当地的巡回法院招待所和 18 世纪荷兰商站博罗库蒂，图书馆、教师休息室和医疗中心则设在当地学校 B B Hindu Academy 内。
• Its first session had 20 professors and 161 students, only five of them women, spread across six departments: Bengali, English, history, law, philosophy and economics首个学期共有 20 名教授和 161 名学生，其中仅有 5 名女生，分布在孟加拉语、英语、历史、法律、哲学和经济学六个系。
• In 1964 the university moved from these temporary buildings to its permanent campus at Motihar, which remains the centre of its academic life1964 年，学校从这些临时建筑迁入莫蒂哈尔的永久校区，那里至今仍是其教学与学术生活的中心。
• During the 1960s the campaign for East Pakistani autonomy drew students and staff into politics, and the campus became a regular stage for demonstrations20 世纪 60 年代，争取东巴基斯坦自治的运动把学生和教师卷入政治，校园成为示威活动的常设舞台。
• On 18 February 1969 the professor Mohammad Shamsuzzoha was shot dead by police as he tried to shield student demonstrators, an event commemorated every year as Zoha Day1969 年 2 月 18 日，穆罕默德·沙姆苏佐哈教授在试图保护示威学生时被警察枪杀，这一事件此后每年以「佐哈日」加以纪念。
• When the Liberation War broke out in 1971 the Pakistan Army used the campus as a base, and professors, students and university officers were among those killed during the nine months of conflict1971 年解放战争爆发后，巴基斯坦军队把校园用作基地，在九个月的冲突中，该校的多名教授、学生和校方管理人员遇害。
• The Rajshahi University Act of 1973, passed on 25 September 1973, gave the university a large measure of autonomy and made the president of Bangladesh its ceremonial chancellor1973 年 9 月 25 日通过的《1973 年拉吉沙希大学法》赋予学校很大程度的自治权，并规定孟加拉国总统担任礼仪性的校监。
• The 1980s brought repeated shutdowns as students joined the national movement against the military rule of Hossain Muhammad Ershad, and a four-year honours course could stretch to eight years because of session backlogs20 世纪 80 年代，学生加入反对侯赛因·穆罕默德·艾尔沙德军政府的全国运动，学校多次停摆，四年制荣誉学士课程因学期积压有时要拖到八年才能完成。
• The National University, created in 1992, took over the administration of the colleges that had been affiliated to Rajshahi, ending the university's role as a regional examining body1992 年成立的国立大学接管了此前附属于拉吉沙希大学的各学院的管理权，结束了该校作为地区考试机构的历史角色。
• In 2000 the university absorbed a local agricultural college to create the Faculty of Agriculture, which teaches on the main campus and does practical work at its Narikelbaria farm2000 年，学校并入一所当地农学院，组建农业学院，该院在主校区授课，并在纳里凯尔巴里亚农场开展实践教学。
• The Bangladesh Institute of Technology at Rajshahi, which had provided engineering teaching on the campus, became the independent Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology in 2002曾在校区内承担工程教学的拉吉沙希孟加拉国技术学院于 2002 年独立为拉吉沙希工程技术大学。
• The university marked its golden jubilee in 2003 with the Golden Jubilee Tower beside the main gate, an open theatre and two murals that have become campus landmarks2003 年，学校以主门旁的金禧塔、一座露天剧场和两幅壁画纪念建校五十周年，这些设施后来成为校园地标。
• A separate Faculty of Engineering was created in 2009 to bring computer science, information and communication engineering, materials science and applied chemistry under one roof2009 年，学校单独设立工程学院，把计算机科学、信息与通信工程、材料科学以及应用化学纳入同一学院。
• The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering admitted its first students in 2015, and in December 2018 the authorities decided to merge the older applied physics and electronic engineering department into it电气与电子工程系于 2015 年招收首批学生，2018 年 12 月校方决定把历史更久的应用物理与电子工程系并入该系。
• The Department of Law and Land Administration was launched in the 2015-16 session as the first Bangladeshi programme devoted to land law, land management and land survey法律与土地管理系于 2015-16 学年开办，是孟加拉国首个专门教授土地法、土地管理与土地测量的专业。
• In November 2017 a woman student was abducted from the campus, provoking protests in which students demanded her rescue and better security at the gates2017 年 11 月，一名女学生在校园内被绑架，引发学生抗议，要求救回被绑学生并加强校门安检。
• The quota reform movement of July 2018 divided the campus, and on 2 July 2018 the student leader Toriqul Islam was beaten by counter-demonstrators while police stood by, an attack filmed by The Daily Star2018 年 7 月的配额改革运动使校园陷入对立，同年 7 月 2 日学生领袖托里库尔·伊斯拉姆被反示威者殴打，警察在场旁观，袭击过程被《每日星报》拍下。
• In March 2026 the professor Faridul Islam was appointed vice-chancellor, taking charge of a university that had meanwhile expanded to 59 departments and six institutes2026 年 3 月，法里杜尔·伊斯拉姆教授被任命为校长，接手这所已扩展至 59 个系和 6 个研究所的大学。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into 12 faculties: Arts, Engineering, Fine Arts, Law, Science, Business Studies, Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, Agriculture, Fisheries, and Veterinary and Animal Sciences教学按 12 个学院组织，即文学院、工程学院、美术学院、法学院、理学院、商业研究学院、社会科学学院、生命科学学院、地球科学学院、农业学院、渔业学院以及兽医与动物科学学院。
• These faculties run 59 departments and six institutes, and employ more than 1,200 academic staff supported by 1,614 administrative employees这些学院共设 59 个系和 6 个研究所，拥有 1200 余名专任教师，并有 1614 名行政人员提供支持。
• Arts and Law are the oldest faculties, both dating from 1953, Science followed in 1956, and Engineering was separated from the science faculty only in 2009文学院和法学院是历史最悠久的学院，均始于 1953 年，理学院于 1956 年成立，工程学院直到 2009 年才从理学院中分离出来。
• The Faculty of Engineering teaches information and communication engineering, founded in 2000, computer science and engineering, applied chemistry and chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering工程学院开设信息与通信工程（2000 年设立）、计算机科学与工程、应用化学与化学工程、材料科学与工程以及电气与电子工程等专业。
• The Department of Law was a pioneer of graduate legal education in South Asia, began offering the Bachelor of Jurisprudence honours degree in 1970, and now runs LLB, LLM, evening LLM, MPhil and PhD programmes法律系是南亚研究生法学教育的先驱，1970 年起开设法学荣誉学士学位，如今提供法学学士、法学硕士、晚间法学硕士、哲学硕士和博士课程。
• The Department of Law and Land Administration, opened in 2015-16, is the first in Bangladesh to teach land law, land management and survey as a full degree2015-16 学年开办的法律与土地管理系是孟加拉国首个把土地法、土地管理与测量作为完整学位来教授的院系。
• Life sciences are taught through botany, zoology, genetic engineering and biotechnology, microbiology, psychology and clinical psychology生命科学的教学涵盖植物学、动物学、基因工程与生物技术、微生物学、心理学和临床心理学。
• The Faculty of Social Sciences has ten departments, including economics, political science, social work, sociology, mass communication and journalism, information science and library management, public administration, anthropology, folklore and international relations社会科学学院设有十个系，包括经济学、政治学、社会工作、社会学、大众传播与新闻学、信息科学与图书馆管理、公共行政、人类学、民俗学和国际关系。
• Business studies are concentrated in the Rabindra Building, where finance, accounting and information systems, marketing, management studies, banking and insurance, and tourism and hospitality management are taught商业研究课程集中在拉宾德拉楼，开设金融、会计与信息系统、市场营销、管理研究、银行与保险以及旅游与酒店管理等专业。
• The Faculty of Science covers mathematics, physics, chemistry, statistics, biochemistry and molecular biology, pharmacy, population science and human resource development, applied mathematics, and physical education and sports science理学院涵盖数学、物理、化学、统计学、生物化学与分子生物学、药学、人口科学与人力资源开发、应用数学以及体育与运动科学。
• The Faculty of Agriculture, formed in 2000, runs agronomy and crop science, the latter established in 2005 with about 250 students and a four-year Bachelor of Science in Agriculture2000 年组建的农业学院开设农学与农业推广、作物科学与技术两个系，后者设于 2005 年，约有 250 名学生，学制为四年制农业理学士。
• Six institutes support research and postgraduate teaching: the Institute of Bangladesh Studies, the Institute of Biological Science, the Institute of Business Administration, the Institute of Education and Research, the Institute of English and Other Languages, and the Institute of Environmental Science六个研究所支撑科研与研究生教学，分别是孟加拉研究所、生物科学研究所、工商管理研究所、教育与研究研究所、英语及其他语言研究所以及环境科学研究所。
• The university reports more than 25,000 students, of whom about 18,000 are undergraduates and about 6,000 postgraduates, making it one of the largest universities in Bangladesh校方公布的学生总数超过 2.5 万人，其中本科生约 1.8 万人、研究生约 6000 人，是孟加拉国规模最大的大学之一。
• Its budget for the 2026-27 financial year was 543.58 crore taka, about 5.4 billion taka, most of it provided by the government through the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh学校 2026-27 财年预算为 543.58 亿塔卡，约合 54 亿塔卡，其中大部分由孟加拉国大学拨款委员会代表政府拨付。
• Admission is by competitive written test, tuition is kept low by regional standards, and a 2006-07 increase in admission fees drew protests, while in 2007 the university awarded 340 scholarships worth about 1.1 million taka入学须通过竞争性笔试，学费按地区标准保持在较低水平，2006-07 学年上调入学费曾引发抗议，2007 年学校发放了 340 份奖学金，总额约 110 万塔卡。
• It also affiliates the Rajshahi University School and College, founded in 1966 with about 2,200 pupils, and a group of non-government engineering and bioscience colleges学校还附设拉吉沙希大学附属学校与学院（1966 年创办，约有 2200 名学生）以及一批非政府工程与生物科学学院。

Campus

• The main campus occupies 753 acres, about 305 hectares, at Motihar on the eastern side of Rajshahi, roughly a mile from the Bangladeshi bank of the Padma主校区位于拉吉沙希市东侧的莫蒂哈尔，占地 753 英亩，约合 305 公顷，距帕德玛河孟加拉国一侧的河岸约一英里。
• The walled site is entered through six gates, three of them on the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway, with the Kazla gate serving the western playing fields and halls, the Binodpur gate the eastern quarter and the Main gate the administrative core围墙环绕的校园设有六座校门，其中三座位于达卡至拉吉沙希公路上，卡兹拉门通往西部的操场与宿舍区，比诺德普尔门通往东部区域，主门则通向行政核心区。
• The Dhaka-Rajshahi railway runs through the campus and stops at a dedicated University Station near Shaheed Shohrawardy Hall, beside which lies the student-only station bazaar达卡至拉吉沙希的铁路穿过校园，并在沙希德·苏拉瓦迪宿舍附近设有专用车站「大学站」，站旁是仅供学生使用的站前集市。
• Eleven large academic buildings are grouped by discipline, five for arts, business studies and social sciences, four for natural and applied sciences, and two for agriculture校园内的十一座大型教学楼按学科分组，其中五座供人文、商业研究与社会科学使用，四座供自然科学与应用科学使用，两座供农业学科使用。
• The Senate House, a modern mini-parliament with 206 air-conditioned rooms, faces Shabash Bangladesh, one of the largest war memorial sculptures in the country, designed by Nitun Kundu and named after a poem by Sukanta Bhattacharya参议院大楼是一座拥有 206 间空调房间的现代小型议会式建筑，其对面是孟加拉国最大的战争纪念雕塑之一「Shabash Bangladesh」，由尼通·昆杜设计，名字取自苏坎塔·巴塔查里亚的同名诗作。
• The Shaheed Minar carries a mural by Murtaza Bashir, and the campus also holds the obelisk and mural of Mohammad Shamsuzzoha, a mass-grave monument and a martyred intellectual memorial near the central library烈士纪念碑上绘有穆尔塔扎·巴希尔的壁画，校园内还有穆罕默德·沙姆苏佐哈的方尖碑与壁画、一座万人冢纪念碑，以及中央图书馆附近的遇难知识分子纪念雕塑。
• Paris Road, running from the Kazla gate past mango plantations, Kazla pond and the vice-chancellor's residence to Shamsuzzoha Square and the Sher-e-Bangla Hall, is regarded as the signature avenue of the campus巴黎路从卡兹拉门出发，经过芒果园、卡兹拉池塘和校长官邸，抵达沙姆苏佐哈广场与谢尔-班格拉宿舍，被视为校园的标志性大道。
• The Varendra Research Museum, founded in 1910 by Ramaprasad Chanda and absorbed by the university in the 1960s, holds one of the richest collections of Bengal sculpture in the world and is the oldest museum in Bangladesh瓦伦德拉研究博物馆由拉马普拉萨德·钱达于 1910 年创办，20 世纪 60 年代并入大学，收藏着世界上最丰富的孟加拉雕塑藏品之一，也是孟加拉国历史最悠久的博物馆。
• The Shahid Smriti Sangrahasala is the oldest liberation war museum in the country, and the campus also contains a botanical garden, the Matihar Udyan artificial forest, the Jungle Genome Project bird sanctuary, two large lakes and about fifty ponds沙希德纪念博物馆是该国历史最悠久的解放战争博物馆，校园内还有植物园、马蒂哈尔人工林、丛林基因组项目鸟类保护区、两个大湖以及约五十个池塘。
• Sports facilities include a stadium seating about 25,000, a swimming pool with spectator stands, two gymnasiums, four football grounds, a hockey ground, four tennis courts, two basketball courts and a squash court体育设施包括可容纳约 2.5 万名观众的体育场、带看台的游泳池、两座体育馆、四个足球场、一个曲棍球场、四个网球场、两个篮球场和一个壁球场。

Reputation

• QS World University Rankings 2027 places Rajshahi in the 1401+ band, the open-ended final group that the table reports as a single shared interval2027 年 QS 世界大学排名把拉吉沙希大学列入 1401+ 区间，这是该榜单以单一并列区间公布的末段组别。
• Times Higher Education lists it in the 1001-1200 band of its 2027 world ranking, placing it among the second thousand institutions in that table泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名将其列入 1001–1200 区间，使它处于该榜单的第二千名段位。
• U.S. News ranks it 612th in the 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list, the strongest global position it holds among the major tables that include it在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学榜单中，学校位列第 612 位，这是它在收录该校的主要榜单中取得的最高全球位次。
• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities does not include Rajshahi in its main table, and the university is therefore absent from that particular league2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜未收录拉吉沙希大学，因此该校并未出现在这一榜单之中。
• Within Bangladesh it is conventionally counted as the second oldest and third largest university, and it is the largest higher education institution in the northern part of the country在孟加拉国国内，它通常被视为历史第二悠久、规模第三大的大学，也是该国北部规模最大的高等教育机构。
• Its law faculty produced Muhammad Habibur Rahman, the seventh Chief Justice of Bangladesh and Chief Adviser of the 1996 caretaker government, along with several ministers and High Court judges该校法学院培养了孟加拉国第七任首席大法官、1996 年看守政府首席顾问穆罕默德·哈比布尔·拉赫曼，以及多位部长和高等法院法官。
• Faculty and alumni hold a long list of national honours, including Independence Day Awards and Ekushey Padaks won by the writers Hasan Azizul Huq, Selina Hossain, Mahadev Saha and Syed Ali Ahsan该校教师与校友获得过多项国家荣誉，作家哈桑·阿齐祖尔·胡克、塞利娜·侯赛因、马哈德夫·萨哈和赛义德·阿里·阿赫桑都曾获独立日奖或语言运动奖章。
• Research visibility rests less on citation counts than on its institutes and collections, notably the Institute of Bangladesh Studies and the Varendra Research Museum's holdings of ancient and medieval Bengal art该校的科研影响力更多来自其研究所与馆藏，而非引用数量，尤其是孟加拉研究所和瓦伦德拉研究博物馆收藏的古代与中世纪孟加拉艺术品。

Student life

• The university has no formal motto in its official publications, and its emblem instead carries the message: a circle for the world, a red and gold open book for education and the shapla, the national flower, at its centre学校官方资料中没有正式校训，其校徽转而以图形表意，圆环代表世界，红金两色的打开书本代表教育，中央则是国花睡莲。
• Zoha Day on 18 February, the anniversary of Mohammad Shamsuzzoha's death, is the campus's own commemoration and is observed at his obelisk and at the Shaheed Minar每年 2 月 18 日的佐哈日纪念穆罕默德·沙姆苏佐哈的遇难，是校园独有的纪念活动，人们在他的方尖碑和烈士纪念碑前举行仪式。
• On Language Movement Day, Independence Day and Victory Day, students and teachers walk barefoot to the Shaheed Minar to lay wreaths, and the three dates structure the university's annual calendar在语言运动日、独立日和胜利日，师生赤脚走到烈士纪念碑前献花，这三个日期构成了学校年度日程的重要节点。
• Pohela Baisakh, the Bengali new year, and Saraswati Puja are celebrated with processions and hall-based rituals, while Eid empties the residential halls as students return to their families孟加拉新年和萨拉斯瓦蒂节以游行和各宿舍的仪式庆祝，而开斋节期间学生纷纷回家，宿舍区几乎空无一人。
• Eighteen residential halls, eleven for men, six for women and one international dormitory, accommodate more than 10,000 students, well short of demand, which has produced a belt of private messes around the gates学校有 18 栋学生宿舍，其中男生宿舍 11 栋、女生宿舍 6 栋、国际学生宿舍 1 栋，可容纳一万余人，仍远不能满足需求，校门周边因此形成了私营出租宿舍带。
• The halls are named after national and regional figures such as Begum Rokeya, Monnujan and the mathematics professor Shaheed Habibur Rahman, who was killed on campus in 1971各宿舍以本国和本地区的人物命名，例如贝古姆·罗凯亚、蒙努詹，以及在 1971 年于校园内遇害的数学教授沙希德·哈比布尔·拉赫曼。
• The Teacher-Student Centre hosts freshmen receptions and the annual cultural competition, and the campus supports the recitation group Shwanan, the drama groups Anushilon and the Rajshahi University Drama Association师生中心承办新生欢迎会和年度文艺比赛，校园内活跃着朗诵团体 Shwanan、戏剧团体阿努希隆以及拉吉沙希大学戏剧协会。
• The Department of Physical Education employs 27 instructors and runs inter-hall tournaments, while student politics, organised around the Rajshahi University Central Students' Union, remains influential and contentious体育系聘有 27 名教师并组织宿舍间联赛，而围绕拉吉沙希大学中央学生会展开的学生政治依然影响力巨大且争议不断。

Notable people

• Itrat Hossain Zuberi, principal of Rajshahi College, became the first vice-chancellor in 1953 and had earlier taught Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Islamia College in Calcutta拉吉沙希学院院长伊特拉特·侯赛因·祖贝里于 1953 年出任首任校长，早年曾在加尔各答伊斯兰学院教过谢赫·穆吉布·拉赫曼。
• Mohammad Shamsuzzoha, a professor at the university, was killed by police on 18 February 1969 and is honoured in Bangladesh as the first intellectual martyr of the independence struggle该校教授穆罕默德·沙姆苏佐哈于 1969 年 2 月 18 日被警察杀害，在孟加拉国被尊为独立运动中第一位殉难的知识分子。
• Abul Hasnat Muhammad Qamaruzzaman, a law graduate, was one of the four national leaders of Bangladesh, served as a minister in the 1971 provisional government and was killed in 1975法律系毕业生阿布·哈斯纳特·穆罕默德·卡马鲁扎曼是孟加拉国四位国家领导人之一，曾在 1971 年临时政府中担任部长，并于 1975 年遇害。
• Muhammad Habibur Rahman, a law alumnus, served as the seventh Chief Justice of Bangladesh and as Chief Adviser of the caretaker government that oversaw the 1996 general election法律系校友穆罕默德·哈比布尔·拉赫曼曾任孟加拉国第七任首席大法官，并在监督 1996 年大选的看守政府中担任首席顾问。
• Mohammed Shahabuddin, the president of Bangladesh since 2023, studied at the University of Rajshahi and later served as a district judge before entering politics2023 年起担任孟加拉国总统的穆罕默德·沙哈布丁曾就读于拉吉沙希大学，后在从政前担任地区法官。
• Annisul Huq, an alumnus, founded the advertising firm Adcomm and served as mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation from 2015 until his death in 2017校友安尼苏尔·胡克创办了广告公司 Adcomm，并于 2015 年至 2017 年去世前担任达卡北城公司市长。
• Hasan Azizul Huq, who taught philosophy at Rajshahi for decades, was one of the foremost Bengali short-story writers and received both the Independence Award and the Ekushey Padak在拉吉沙希大学执教哲学数十年的哈桑·阿齐祖尔·胡克是孟加拉语短篇小说大家，曾获独立日奖和语言运动奖章。
• Selina Hossain, a novelist and alumna, won the Ekushey Padak and the Independence Award for works such as Hangor Nodi Grenade, published in 1976, and Poka Makorer Ghor Boshoti, published in 1996小说家、校友塞利娜·侯赛因凭《鲨鱼河手榴弹》（1976 年）和《蛀虫的蜂巢》（1996 年）等作品获得语言运动奖章和独立日奖。
• Syed Ali Ahsan, a National Professor of Bangladesh, was the official English translator of the national anthem and a long-serving teacher of Bengali literature at the university孟加拉国国家教授赛义德·阿里·阿赫桑是国歌的官方英译者，也是该校长期讲授孟加拉语文学的教师。
• Mahadev Saha, a poet and alumnus, received the Ekushey Padak and the Independence Award and is known for collections that draw on the landscapes of northern Bengal诗人、校友马哈德夫·萨哈曾获语言运动奖章和独立日奖，其诗集以孟加拉北部乡村风物为底色。
• Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, a professor of Arabic, led the Ahl-i Hadith movement, was arrested in 2005 on suspicion of militant links and was acquitted of all charges in 2008阿拉伯语教授穆罕默德·阿萨杜拉·阿尔-加利卜领导艾赫勒-哈迪斯运动，2005 年因涉嫌与武装组织有关联被捕，2008 年被判全部罪名不成立。