University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh


University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh is a private liberal arts-based university in Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Founded in February 2002, permission to open was received from the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh in November 2003, pursuant to the Private University Act, 1992.
ULAB incorporates the values of liberal arts and sustainability into its curricula, through its General Education Department and its Center for Sustainable Development. ULAB is a research-intensive university, with multiple research opportunities for its faculty members and students.
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Campus

The university's campus is located in Mohammadpur in Dhaka. It is one of the largest private universities in Bangladesh. The foundation of the campus was laid in February 2002. Classes started in the permanent campus from 1 October 2004. It contains 4 buildings with a research building in Dhanmondi, a stadium standard field, and 3 academic buildings.

Administration

There is a separate admin building dedicated to administration activities.

List of vice-chancellors

Pro vice-chancellors

School of Business

  • Sarwar Uddin Ahmed

Bachelor of Business Administration

  • Muhammad Faisol Chowdhury

Graduate Business Programs

  • Asif Uddin Ahmed

School of Science and Engineering

  • M. Mofazzal Hossain

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

  • M. Mofazzal Hossain

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  • Muhammad Golam Kibria

School of Social Sciences

  • Jude William R. Genilo

Media Studies and Journalism

  • Jude William R. Genilo

School of Arts and Humanities

  • Kaiser Hamidul Haq

Department of English Humanities

  • Arifa Ghani Rahman

Department of Bangla Language and Literature / বাংলা ভাষা ও সাহিত্য বিভাগ

  • Shamim Reza

General Education Program

  • Shahnaj Husne Jahan

Academic departments

In February 2023, ULAB established two new departments, the Bangla Department and the Literature Department. The university is the first institute of higher education in Bangladesh to teach ethnic minority languages, of which Bangladesh has 44 according to Shameem Reza.
ULAB offers degree programs in the following schools:

School of Arts and Humanities

  • Bachelor of Arts, English, and Humanities
  • Bachelor of Arts in Bangla Language and Literature
  • Master of Arts in English

School of Social Science

Bachelor of Social Science, Media Studies and Journalism (Honors)

Department of Media Studies and Journalism established at 2004. The head of the department is Jude William Genilo. MSJ is the flagship department of ULAB, with course of 129 credit, the department also offer apprentice program to learn practically, such as PR4U, ULAB TV, The ULABian, AxisMIL, RadioCamBuzz, ShutterBugs, Dhaka International Mobile Film Festival, and Cinemascope. The department offer Bachelor in Media Studies and Journalism, and Masters in Communicantion.

School of Business

School of Science and Engineering

ULAB has one non-degree-granting program, which runs the required courses to fulfill a liberal arts curriculum:
  • General Education Program

Research institutes

ULAB has nine centers that conduct research, run workshops and conferences; promote knowledge creation, and advocate best practices.

Center for Sustainable Development (CSD)

The Center for Sustainable Development was established in 2006 and is the oldest research center at the university.CSD is Bangladesh's only research institute dedicated solely to the Sustainable Development.

Center for Enterprise and Society (CES)

CES is Bangladesh's first university-based research center dedicated to entrepreneurship and business research with an emphasis on ethical, environmental, and social sustainability.

Center for Critical and Qualitative Studies

Center for Critical and Qualitative Studies is a research center jointly operated by University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh and University of Sussex, UK.

Center for Advanced Theory (CAT)

The programs has three levels of activity: sponsoring research, providing advanced education, and editing research publications. Salimullah Khan is the director of CAT.

Library

In 2004, the Library was launched at 116 Arjatpara, Mohakhali, Tejgaon, Dhaka-1212. In 2006, the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh and the Central Library were moved to its own campus at House 56, Road 4/A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1209. Since 2022, Library is functioning from the ULAB Main Campus at 688 Beribadh Road on the A Building of the campus. ULAB Library is enriched with various types of resources that includes Textbooks, Reference Books, Special & Rare Books, e-Books, Periodicals, National and  International Journals & Magazines, Reports, Newspapers, Audio-Visual Materials, and Maps & Atlas, etc. Besides, ULAB Library is a member of a variety of Online Archives & Databases. Library Resources are kept on the shelf following the internationally recognized Classification System 'DDC scheme'.

Publications

  • ULAB PressThe ULABian, a Student NewspaperMuse, a newsletter of ULABianCinePedia, a semester based film magazine of CinemaScope

Notable people

Faculty

Alumni