Chittagong College is a government college in

Chittagong Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in B ...

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. It is the second college established in Bangladesh after

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. It offers higher secondary education (HSC), bachelor's degree and master's degree.

History

Having begun as Chattogram District school (now Chittagong Collegiate School) in 1836, it became an intermediate college in 2nd 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

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recognized it as a first class degree college. From then it started providing honours degrees on

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, history, mathematics, physics and chemistry. From 1919 it started supplementary courses on

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, economics and philosophy. 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. The students of this institution participated in Language movement in 1952, Bengali Education movement in 1962 and

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in 1971.

Affiliation

Faculties and departments

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, 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. Chittagong College Map Rohan

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. The faculty comprises the following departments: * Department of Bengali * Department of English * Department of Economics * Department of Political Science * Department of History * Department of Islamic History and Culture * Department of Philosophy * Department of Sociology * Department of Islamic Studies

Faculty of Science

The faculty comprises the following departments: * Department of Geography * Department of Physics * Department of Chemistry * Department of Botany * Department of Zoology * Department of Statistics * Department of Mathematics * Department of Psychology

College facility

Student dormitories

There are three male and one female student dormitories. * Saheed Sohrawordy dormitory: "A" block is for Muslim students and "B" block is for non-Muslim students. * Sher-e-Bangla dormitory * Dr. Abdus Sabur dormitory: for honours and master's students * Hazrat Khadizatul Kobra (R) dormitory: for female students * Shekh Hasina dormitory: for female students

College ground

The college has a large ground known as

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. In this five acre ground students from the college and from other colleges play cricket, football, and volleyball. BNCC (Bangladesh National Cadet Corps) uses the ground.

Co-curricular activities

Chittagong College ECA Club
* Chittagong College Information Technology Club (XI-XII students only) * BNCC, the college has the HQ of Karnaphuly battalion-2 of Bangladesh National Cadet Corp. Two Sections are Army Wing and Naval Wing *

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* Chattogram College Creative Club

Chittagong College Information Technology Club (CCITC)

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.

Other facilities

* Two-storied mosque * Common rooms for male and female students. The common room for female students is a two-storied building. * Canteen between the auditorium and the administrative building * Gymnasium *

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, Chittagong College branch * Medical centre * Foreign language training center LTC

Notable alumni

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, awarded the

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for founding the

Grameen Bank Grameen Bank ( bn, গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক) is a microfinance organisation and community development bank founded in Bangladesh. It makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit") to the impoverished without requi ...

and pioneering the concepts of

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and

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. * Bhabatosh Dutta *

Manabendra Narayan Larma Manabendra Narayan Larma (September 15, 1939 - November 10, 1983), also known as M.N. Larma, was a Jumma Chakma politician and Member of Parliament of Bangladesh. A leading proponent of the rights of the people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, he ...

, the founding leader of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti *

Fazlul Karim Fazlul Karim ( ar, فضل الکریم ) is a male Muslim given name, meaning ''bounty of the Generous One''. Bearers of the name include: *Sheikh Fazlul Karim (1882–1936), Bangladeshi poet and writer * Fazlul Karim (lawyer) (1905-1986), Banglad ...

, lawyer, businessman, politician and soldier. He was the first mayor of Cox's Bazar *

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, a Bangladeshi researcher, litterateur and educationist *

Salimullah Khan Salimullah Khan ( bn, সলিমুল্লাহ খান; born 18 August 1958) is a Bangladeshi writer. Khan explores national and international politics and culture using Marxist and Lacanian theories. Informed and influenced by Ahmed Sof ...

* Birendra Kishore Roaza *

* Asif Iqbal - Bangladeshi lyricist, music composer and corporate personality *

A J M Nasir Uddin Abu Jafar Mohammad Nasir Uddin aka A J M Nasir Uddin ( bn, আ জ ম নাসির উদ্দিন; born 1 January 1957) is a Bangladeshi politician and former Mayor of Chittagong City Corporation. He is also the vice president of Bangla ...

, Bangladeshi Politician, former

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and Vice President of

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. *

Rezaul Karim Chowdhury Rezaul Karim Chowdhury (born 31 May 1953) is a Bangladeshi politician and incumbent mayor of Chittagong City Corporation. He is also the joint general secretary of Chattogram Mahanagar Awami League. Early life and education Chowdhury was born on ...

, Bangladeshi Politician and

Notable faculty members

* Beni Madhab Das, he joined in the college in its initial years and made the college as a model institution *

Surendranath Dasgupta Surendranath Dasgupta (18 October 1887 – 18 December 1952) was an Indian scholar of Sanskrit and Indian philosophy. Family and education Surendranath Dasgupta was born to a Vaidya family in Kushtia, Bengal (now in Bangladesh), on Sunday, O ...

, he was a professor of Bangla and Sangskrit in the college *

Subodh Chandra Sengupta Subodh Chandra Sengupta (27 June 1903 – 3 December 1998) was an Indian scholar, academic and critic of English literature, known for his scholarship on Shakespearean works. His books on William Shakespeare, which included ''Aspects of Shakespea ...

, came to dept. of English in this college in 1933 from Presidency College, Kolkata *

Motaher Hussain Chowdhury Motaher Hossain Chowdhury ( bn, মোতাহের হোসেন চৌধুরী; 1903 – 1956) was a Bengali writer, thinker and educationist. He was born in Noakhali of Bengal Presidency, British India in 1903. He died in Chittagong, ...

, a Bengalii writer, was born in

Noakhali Noakhali ( bn, নোয়াখালী, , New canal), historically known as Bhulua ( bn, ভুলুয়া), is a district in southeastern Bangladesh, located in the Chittagong Division. It was established as district in 1821, and officia ...

. He worked in Chittagong College from 1947 to 1956. *

Badruddin Umar Badruddin Umar ( bn, বদরুদ্দীন উমর; born 20 December 1931) is a Bangladeshi Marxist–Leninist theorist, political activist, historian, writer, intellectual and leader of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leni ...

Abdul Haque Faridi Abul Faraḥ Muḥammad ʿAbdul Ḥaque Farīdī (25 May 1903 – 5 February 1996) was a Bangladeshi educator and author. In recognition of his contributions in the field of linguistics, he was awarded a Bangla Academy Fellowship. Faridi was t ...

, lecturer

Gallery

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References

External links

Official website
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