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Engineering & Technical Education in Bangladesh.
The history of engineering education in Bangladesh dates back to 1876 when the Dhaka Survey School was founded at Nalgola in a rented building to train surveyors for the government of Bengal in British India. After the 2nd World War government took up large-scale plans for industrial development in Bengal, but there was acute shortage of skilled manpower.
In August 1947 the Ahsanullah Engineering School was upgraded to the Ahsanullah Engineering College (now BUET) as a Faculty of Engineering under the University of Dhaka, offering four-year bachelor's courses in civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering with a view to meeting the increasing demand for engineers in the country and to expanding the facilities for the advancement of engineering education. In order to create facilities for postgraduate studies and research, the Ahsanullah Engineering College was upgraded and the East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology established on 1st June 1962. After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, it was renamed as the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. At present the university has sixteen teaching departments under five faculties.
Since than, to increase opportunities for engineering education, the government established several Engineering Colleges in different regions of the country.
List of existing Engineering Colleges & Universities :
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