Canadian University of Bangladesh is a private university in Bangladesh. This university is known as "Canadian University". The university is affiliated to the University Grants Commission. Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat is the chairperson of the board of trustees. HM Jahirul Haque is the vice-chancellor of the university.

History

Canadian University of Bangladesh was approved by the government of Bangladesh on 10 January 2016. It was founded by Chowdhury Nasir Sharafat, a Bangladeshi-Canadian businessman. The university started operations from June 2016. The university offers Sarafat Chowdhury Merit Scholarship to students based on their academic performance. Canadian University Alumni Association was formed on 28 May 2019 in Dhaka. In June 2019, Canadian University of Bangladesh signed a MOU with the

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in Malaysia.

List of vice-chancellors

* Muhammad Mahfuzul Islam (2018 – 2022) * HM Jahirul Haque (21 April 2022 – present)

Land transfer controversy

In 2019, the Bangladesh

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accused the

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(RAJUK) (Capital Development Authority of the Government of Bangladesh) with changing the status of a plot of land in violation of a High Court ruling, allowing the plot to be transferred to the Canadian University of Bangladesh. The plot had been allocated for construction of a secondary school, but had been reclassified as available for a private university (the Canadian University), allegedly in violation proper procedures for altering the Master Plan of the

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. According to the Ministry, the High Court had approved one part of a proposed fifth amendment to the Plan (addition of a 142-storey tower) but had rejected the rest, and had instructed RAJUK to not modify the category of plots mentioned in the Plan. But, according to the Ministry, RAJUK changed the classification of the plot anyway. According to local real estate experts, the plot was worth about 1.02 billion

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(about $12,000,000 in American dollars). Both the university and RAJUK denied malfeasance.

Board of trustees

References

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