Chittagong College

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Chittagong College
চট্টগ্রাম কলেজ
Chittagong College logo.png
Motto
শিক্ষাই শক্তি
Motto in English
Education is Power
Type Public
Established1869;155 years ago (1869)
Affiliation
Chairman Md. Abu Taher
Principal Prof. Md. Mozahidul Islam Chowdhury
Vice-Principal Prof. Subrata Bikash Barua
Academic staff
169
Administrative staff
400
Students18000+ (as of 2018)
Location,
22°21′10.73″N91°50′12.68″E / 22.3529806°N 91.8368556°E / 22.3529806; 91.8368556
Campus Urban, 20 acres (8.1 ha)
Language Bengali
English
Website www.ctgcollege.gov.bd

Chittagong College is a public educational institution in Chittagong, Bangladesh. It is a higher secondary school and also a degree awarding college of National University. It is the second higher secondary school in Bangladesh, established in 1871 after the Dhaka College. It was previously affiliated by the University of Chittagong.

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History

Having begun as Chattogram District school (now Chittagong Collegiate School) in 1836, it became an intermediate college on 2 January 1869. Its academic activities as a college started at a Portuguese-merchant-built building beside the Parade Ground. The first principal was J C Bose. Initially, it used to offer law education, but the subject was suspended in 1909. In the same year, it started providing science education in the intermediate section from the 1909. The institute became a graduation college in 1910 after University of Calcutta 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. In 1919, supplementary courses on English, economics and philosophy were introduced. In 1942, honours courses in Economics started. The college suspended its honours programme in 1955. But, it reintroduced honours courses on English, Bangla, economics, physics, chemistry and mathematics in 1960. 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 1962.

In 1926, A. K. Fazlul Huq established Muslim Chattrabash, which is now known as Sher-e-Bangla Chattrabas. [1] The students of this institution participated in Language movement in 1952, [2] Bengali Education movement in 1962, and Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.

Affiliation

CourseDate of first affiliation
SSC 1836
Degree (Pass)1910
Honours1919
Master's Preliminary1992
Master's Final1992

[3]

Faculties and departments

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Parade ground of Chittagong College

The college teaches honours and offers master's degrees in 17 subjects (present 2018). Science and humanities are course for HSC student. The college has five academic buildings, a library with 60,000 books, [1] a mosque, and an auditorium. The college has three academic buildings. one of them used as a foreign language teaching inclusive arts and an ICT (information and communication technology) lab based building.

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Administrational map of Chittagong College
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Administrational building of Chittagong College

Faculty of Arts & Social Science

The Department of English in Chittagong College is called Royal Department. Famous scholar Subodh Candra Sen Gupta joined in the department in 1933. It opened in 1910. [1]

The faculty comprises the following departments:

Faculty of Science

The faculty comprises the following departments:

College facility

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. [4] BNCC (Bangladesh National Cadet Corps) uses the ground.

Co-curricular activities

Chittagong College Information Technology Club (CCITC)

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Chittagong College Information Technology Club was founded on February 2, 2020. It is a platform that provides students with opportunities to discuss various topics on informatics outside the classroom and enhance the skills of students other than the regular curriculum. Current activities include Programming and Problem Solving, IoT and Robotics, Web Development and Graphic Design, and Data Science and Machine Learning. There is one class per week for any of the above four topics. To attend the classes, being a member is mandatory. [5]

Other facilities

Notable alumni

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Nobel laureate Muhammad Younus

Notable faculty members

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