Jagannath University

Motto: বিদ্যা, ঈমান, শৃঙ্খলা
Established: 1858
Type: Public
Chancellor: President Mohammad Zillur Rahman
Vice-Chancellor: Professor Dr. Mesbah Uddin Ahmad
Faculty: 271
Students: 27 000
Location: 10, Chitta Ranjan Avenue, Dhaka, Bangladesh 23°42′37″N 90°24′40″E / 23.71028°N 90.41111°E / 23.71028; 90.41111Coordinates: 23°42′37″N 90°24′40″E / 23.71028°N 90.41111°E / 23.71028; 90.41111
Campus: City
Former names: Jagannath College
Website: Official Website

Introduction
Jagannath University (Bengali: জগন্নাথ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a government-financed public university located in Sadarghat, Dhaka the capital of Bangladesh.

Academics
Now the University has 28 departments under 4 faculties. At present 359 teachers are engaged in providing quality education of around 27000 students in diverse field.
Faculties
There are four faculties in this university. These are:
Faculty of Arts

There are eight departments in this faculty * Department of Bengali

* Department of English

* Department of Philosophy

* Department of General History

* Department of Islamic History & Culture

* Department of Islamic Studies

* Department of Law

* Department of Anthropology

Faculty of Social Science
There are five departments in this university:
* Department of Economics

* Department of Political Science

* Department of Sociology

* Department of Social Work

* Departmant of Journalism
Faculty of Science
This faculty has eleven departments. The departments of this faculty are
* Department of Physics

* Department of Chemistry

* Department of Mathematics

* Department of Statistics

* Department of Botany

* Department of Zoology

* Department of Geography & Environment

* Department of Psychology

* Department of Pharmacy

* Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology

* Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Faculty of Business Studies
This faculty is consist of four department. those are-
* Department of Management Studies: Management Studies department is the leading dept of the faculty. From 2005 to present (06.04.10) five batches has been studying here. Each batch consists of 220 students.

* Department of Accounting Information System: Each batch consists of 220 students

* Department of Marketing: Each batch consists of 110 students

* Department of Finance: Each batch consists of 110 students

There are 660 sitting for every session. Of them 440 for Management Studies and Accounting Information System, another 220 for Marketing and Finance. Student get 132 credit hour to complete the full course. Which is one of the heights credit hours in BBA among the universities of Bangladesh. There are eight semester and they have to complete those in four year. The dean of this faculty is Prof. Dr. Md. Mosharraf Hossain .

The university starts its BBA program in 2005. In past this university was under NU. Still now here are student of Honour's degree. Recently the MBA program has started in Dept. of Management Studies and dept. of Accounting Information System of Business Studies faculty.