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CIU PROFILE
Chittagong Independent University (CIU) started its journey in 1999 as the Chittagong Campus of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). Since inception the institution established itself as a hub for higher education. Due to legislative changes in the beginning of 2010, the erstwhile Chittagong Campus of IUB applied for functioning as an autonomous university and received its approval from the Ministry of Education and the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh on February 6,2013 under the name of Chittagong Independent University. Since then it has been functioning as an independent and prestigious centre for undergraduate and post graduate learning and research. CIU currently has 2449 undergraduate and graduate students and the number of student population is projected to grow by 10% annually. The students of CIU experience an exciting academic life with copious opportunity to explore and nurture their innate talent.
CIU has always maintained its motto of sustaining an ideal student teacher ratio of 20:1. It has close to 87 (Permanent 46 + Adjunct 41) faculty members committed to delivering excellent education and providing the students with a unique learning experience. Hence the teaching approach of our world class community of faculty is distinctive.
CIU is operating in its rented campus measuring 1,00,000 sft in Jamal Khan Road, Chittagong. It also has a guest house for visiting scholars and guests and is looking for a suitable piece of land to build its permanent campus.
CIU is distinctive in its emphasis on a broad-based liberal arts curriculum based on a North American model which is significantly at variance with traditional discipline- specific curricula of other universities in the country and the region. The mission of CIU is to deliver a high quality education which will help foster thinking across disciplines, encourage tolerance and understanding of diverse cultural and social traditions, nurture essential values and prepare students for a fast changing world.
The University has 4 Schools (CIU Business School, School of Science and Engineering, School of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences and School of Law) offering 4 - year undergraduate programs in Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Management, MIS, HR Management, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, English Literature, Language & English Language Teaching and Bachelor of Laws (LLB). CIU also offers graduate programs at the Master’s Level in Business Administration in Finance, Marketing, Banking, and Human Resource Management (HRM). The School of Law offers Master of Laws (LLM) and Master of Laws (LLM) in Human Rights and the School of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences offers Master of Arts degree in English Literature and MA in English Language Teaching (MA in ELT)
Following an eclectic approach of drawing on the best from the East and the West, CIU has bonded with some of the world’s best Universities and Institutions to create an academic environment relevant to the contemporary world. CIU has established collaborative arrangements in research, faculty and student exchange and curriculum development with a number of foreign universities and institutions including Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Tennessee, USA, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi, India (IIM Ranchi) and Kathmandu School of Law.
Besides, CIU is also offering one dual degree Master Program, M.Sc. in International Management, under 1+1 model in collaboration with Rennes School Business (RSB), Rennes, France. Under this program a student can complete 1 year of MBA program at CIU and then get a transfer to the Rennes School Business (RSB), Rennes, France and complete the remaining one year over there.
CIU has appointed International advisers in University of Wollongong, Australia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia and KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan to promote and extend activities of CIU in respective countries.
Aside from teaching, CIU is committed to supporting research. The university has established Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), Institute of Governance, Development and International Studies (IGDIS). These Centre have faculty associates both from within and outside CIU and sponsor a regular research seminar series, periodic international conferences on important themes and produce a working paper series. "English Language Centre” is a proposed centre with an aim to train both university and other students in English Language. CIU proudly hosts the American Comer, an initiative of US Embassy in Dhaka.
CIU has been continuing its highly original practice of all its students undergoing two separate credit- earning field programs , a city based internship and a rural Live-in-Field Experience (LFE).
Since its founding CIU has fulfilled all its academic and disciplinary promises and is moving forward to grow into one of the most revered universities of the country.