Message from the Vice Chancellor of CUST

At the very outset, I would like to pay my heartfelt thanks to aspiring students, respected parents and all other partners of Central University of Science and Technology (CUST) for visiting the website of CUST, which is aimed to be a splendid sanctuary of teaching and learning for promotion of education.

Simply saying, education is a process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge and skills. The term ‘knowledge’ can refer to a theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, which is very difficult to measure in true sense, though it is not that difficult to categorize the level of one’s ‘skill’. However, it is very much clear that the terms education, knowledge and skill are contextual and bear high degree of ambiguity. This ambiguity has perhaps opened up a window of opportunity to treat education as a product/commodity where the ultimate buyer may be unidentified or ignored. It is very depressing that nowadays ‘education’ has emerged as a product, and students and parents have become its immediate buyers where the expectation of the ultimate consumers – the industry, the state and the global conglomerates are either ignored or underestimated.

It is really disheartening to see that GPA/CGPA became the only measure of education whereas the actual quality is overlooked most of the time. CUST aims to come out of the traditional buyer-seller and product concept with regards to education. We would like to treat all beneficiaries of education as ‘Stakeholders’, which would essentially include among others, students, parents, industries, society, state and the globalized community. Accordingly, CUST also intends to take up the challenge of imparting quality education, which would cater to the integration of industry-driven competencies and would enhance the capability of economy and humanity. CUST wishes that a consortium of all stakeholders would measure the excellence of the education it imparts. We are confident that with the kind guidance of our Board of Trustees, collaboration from academic colleagues at the national and international level, support from the society, patronization from the industries and above all, whole-hearted support from the students and their guardians, CUST will emerge as the best industry-driven university in the country. I dream that every ‘Graduation Crown’ would be replaced by an ‘Industrial Hat’ immediately after the convocation of our students.

Finally, we strongly believe that our success lies in our passion for teaching and learning and our commitment to our students for whom we really exist.

I wish you all the best and look forward to welcoming you to our University.

Sincerely,

Prof. Gazi Mahabubul Alam, PhD, FRSA
Vice Chancellor

Goal of Education of Central University of Science and Technology (CUST)

CUST seeks to provide education of the highest quality so that all students are prepared to achieve their potential as professional persons and as thoughtful, well-informed individuals.

CUST does not impart education to its students for doing good in the workplace only but it endeavours to turn every student a lifelong learner, who would continue to remain up to date and competitive in his field.

CUST aspires to instill in every student the capability of clear reasoning and critical thinking so that everyone can identify and evaluate problems with their analytical skills and bring out a number of workable solutions to that and finally can recommend the best solution.

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History of Central University of Science and Technology

The government of Bangladesh has approved the establishment of Central University of Science and Technology (CUST) on a very historic day, the 21st February 2016 under Private University Act (PUA)-2010 and permitted to operate from Dhaka. Thus CUST considers its founding day as the 21st February 2016. The university management acknowledges with deep gratitude the kind consent given by honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with regards to functioning of this specialized university.

With the esteemed approval on the International Mother Language Day 2016, the Central University of Science and Technology has made a remarkable progress in materializing the activities to become a true university when the society is suffering from a kind of ‘Diploma Disease’, characterized by a craze for degrees and certificates only. The CUST is well aware of the nature and gravity of this huge challenge and still promises to ride, maintaining highest possible standard of academic ethics. The CUST has planned to start its operational academic activities with effect from September 2016; hopefully from a campus that is owned by CUST.

This specialized university is an endeavour of Advance Welfare Foundation (AWF), a not-for-profit organization that was established in 2000 in order to contribute towards national development as per the national strategy of Bangladesh with a focus into technical education in different fields including the health sector. By now, AWF, through its 31 technical institutes, operating across the country, has produced 27,000 graduates who are employed both locally and internationally. During this long 16 years of education management, AWF has emerged as an excellent and trusted name in promoting affordable technical education in Bangladesh. It may proudly be mentioned here that the Board of Trustees (BoT) of AWF is now led by eminent physician and National Professor Dr M R Khan, who is also the Chairman of BoT, CUST.

Appreciating the huge responsibility conferred by the Government, the Chairman BoT of CUST has immediately formed a team of 6 key personnel of CUST management including him as the team leader to pay a 10-day visit to some of the renowned universities of the region. Accordingly, the team members left Dhaka on 05 April 2016 for visiting Singapore, Malaysia and Australia to see for themselves various facilities of renowned universities of these countries.

After a series of fruitful bi-lateral discussion with senior leaders of six universities of the region, the CUST members returned to home on 15th April 2016. The Universities where the CUST team could reach to some meaningful cooperation were Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) of Singapore,The University Putra Malaysia (UPM),The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus(UNMC), The University of Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), The International University of Malaya Wales (IUMW) and The Taylor’s University (TU). The major areas identified for cooperation are Staff Development, Review of Course Curriculum, Student Exchange Programme and Advisory Role by Experts in higher education. The CUST would continue to strengthen its ties with these universities and would also explore to benefit from mutual cooperation with other global universities. Finally, such cooperation and understanding would remain to be a continuous process for this university with a view to securing its sustainability in the field of global higher education.