LEGAL STATUS OF GUB

Green University of Bangladesh (GUB) is established under the private University Act 1992, as amended in 1998. GUB is a modern, dynamic and innovative academy which provides state-of –the-art knowledge, skills and attitude (KSA) in every branch of education. GUB strives to produce professionals with self confidence, versatile skills and ethical standards to meet the challenge of the corporate world and sow the seeds of economic, spiritual and cultural growth.

Enterprising Study

The development of the student’s independent problem solving skills within the practice situation is an important educational concept in the study programs taught at GUB. This approach, also known as “Problem Based Learning” (PBL) and “Case Based Learning” (CBL), involves the students to work independently in small groups.

Class Rooms

The GUB class rooms are provided with modern as well as comfortable furnishing. The class rooms accommodating 40 students have already been arranged. These rooms are provided with (i) Over-head Projectors & Screens, (ii) Slide Projectors & (iii) Multi-media Projectors. The GUB intends to provide all these equipments to the classrooms to use advanced teaching technology. The Multi-media projection system is very convenient for teachers to prepare lectures at home, present in the class and then transfer to the students in soft copies, so that they can study these courses at home using their own computers. These facilities not only encourage the teachers to present a course in a planned manner but also to induce in students to learn in a well planned manner. Moreover, the students will learn the advanced technologies for teaching as well as for learning. 

Highly-competitive fee structure

The tuition fees of GUB courses will be seen highly competitive and affordable when compared with what is being offered by similar other universities. We encourage students of all levels of income groups to expose their potentiality, upgrade human quality and professional skills. Considering the country-wide low income situation, continuous attempts have been made to keep the tuition fee within the affordable range of the parents.  

Course Quality/ Internationally Recognized Programs

 The Syllabus of GUB academic programs have been designed by competent and experienced academics to provide sound theoretical and practical knowledge on Business, Commerce, Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Textile Engineering and Technology, English Law and many other job-oriented subjects. At the same time it gives equal emphasis on the national heritage and ethical, spiritual and social values.

Personal Touch and Attention

We assist our students to succeed. At GUB classes consists of small groups. This provides students with maximum opportunity for individual guidance by teachers. Small class size encourages participation and develops student confidence, the result is a strong foundation for university study, with its emphasis on individual initiative. Counselor monitors individual student’s overall welfare and assists with their academic development, guiding them towards excellence in academic performance. In addition students finding difficulty in a particular subject can receive one-to-one tuition free of charge. Staffs are concerned with the overall welfare of each student.

Job Placement Services

GUB operates a ‘Placement Office’ for the benefit of its students and their prospective employers. The placement service includes interaction of the graduates with prospective employers in seminars, symposia and excursion visits to discuss mutual interests. The ‘Placement Office’ maintains records of the graduating students of the university including their KSA profiles and these records are made available to the prospective employers for the purpose.

Higher Study Contact Facility

GUB provides higher study contact facilities for the benefit of its students and their prospective future life. This service of the University arranges financial assistances and guides them for higher study abroad. The University has a number of scholarships, stipends, assistance-ships for the deserving students, sponsored by benevolent persons of the society.

Credit Transfer and Exchange Programs

GUB has a plan to develop exchange programs with recent air leading universities in North America, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Egypt, Spain and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Such programs will facilitate the exchange of Faculty Members and students. In addition to receiving teaching services of overseas Faculty Members, the students might get admission for higher education to those universities through credit transfer and get employment opportunities abroad subsequently. GUB has the provision of accepting students from other recognized universities for admission both at graduate and undergraduate levels through credit transfer.

Scholarship/ Financial Assistance

Aiming at catering excellent education, the GUB clearly visualizes that quality students (inputs) blended with quality teaching is a prerequisite. So it offers a significant number of scholarships and tuition waivers (full/partial) to attract the meritorious as well as needy students.

Special Language Program

To cope with demand of English language proficiency, the University offers a separate Basic English Development Course for all the students. It is designed for the fresher for educational and conversational purposes. It is an intensive course before entering into the respective academic programs of study which will enable students to pursue the academic course smoothly. The language program is offered to meet the practical demand of the students to make them capable of speaking and writing English for academic and communicative purposes.

Student Advising

All students entering GUB as freshmen are assigned to an academic advisor who will be responsible for guiding and helping them on various academic matters including selection of courses, choice of major subjects, career planning and so on throughout the study at GUB. Students will choose the major of their study in consultation with their advisor.

Internship Program

In order to develop practical awareness about the office management and industrial systems, the students are attached with various organizations by the University for stipulated period with a definite study objectives. This attachment programs usually be held at the related industries and other co-companies including banks, insurance companies, national & multinational companies and NGO’s. For certain program of study, an industrial tour may also be arranged.

Computer Lab

The Computer Lab of Green University of Bangladesh consists of a large number of computers along with necessary accessories. This Lab is well equipped and bear high performance computing facilities. The environment of the lab is comfortable. Students are allowed to use this lab for all kinds of modern information. We have a full time skilled Hardware Engineer and a Technician. They are to provide speedy and effective service to the students of GUB. The laboratories will be enlarged and developed gradually.

An IT Research Lab with state-of-the-art machinery and software facilitate the project work of the senior students. The IT Lab has the state-of-the-art Network, Programming, Database, Basic Electronics, Digital Electronics and Microprocessor equipments. The laboratories are designed to expose and train our students with Windows, Sun Solaris and LINUX, UNIX, MAC operating systems that are considered to be the most important and fundamental to the requirements of computer graduates. Students may study B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering or Computer Science and Information Technology.

Besides the computer lab, the students will have the opportunity for internet connection to obtain recent information. Other accessories like machinery equipment, Blank re-writable CD, Floppy Diskette Facilities, Multimedia Projectors, HP Laser Printer etc are also available.

Electronics Lab

The courses on Communication, Multimedia & Broadcasting have been restructured to mirror changing trends, enabling students to attain the right mix of skills they acquire to perform with excellence and thus progress in their careers.

Our design on computer laboratories utilizes the latest software and hardware and providing excellent digital lab facilities to our students. The current lab setup includes: Micro-Kits (MDA 8068) for microprocessor based lab equipments, Trainer Board, Digital Multi-Meter, Oscilloscope, Bread Board, Mini-Drill, Logic Probe, Logic Pulsar, Lot of ICs, IC Testers, Interfacing Adapters and other supporting peripherals. Students are allowed to cope with the up-to-date knowledge and techniques. The university maintains a strong commitment to innovative programs in Information & Communication Technology. Areas of research include communication systems, network, signal processing, distributed computing, software engineering, radar system, sonar system, computer vision, artificial neural networks and image processing, very large scale integration (VLSI) design, target tracking & recognition, multimedia information services, UHF, microwave and antenna engineering. Students use the latest equipment from digital cameras to computer based editing & broadcasting system.

Sophisticated facilities are the key to effective learning to be in line with the ascending trade of technology. It is important that the student is not too far behind in the acquisition of technical skill and is able to upgrade knowledge smoothly.

Library and Resources Center

Green University of Bangladesh has excellent, state-of-the-art multimedia facilities. Students have access to library, photocopying, word-processing, printing services. GUB Library makes available the prescribed texts and references for each subject, as well as additional resources.

Material is available for loan as well as reference purposes. Private study areas are available. GUB provides access to the appropriate software required to ensure successful learning outcomes in each subject. Library is in the 4^th floor of the University Building of GUB. It has a user-friendly open-stack easy access system. The library provides up-to-date information to students, researchers and teachers.

Green University has a rich library equipped with a variety of books on the academic programs offered as well as on research and extra-curricular activities on different topics and events. GUB has a good collection of books and journals at the Library.

The library resources cover many discipline, such as business, law, management, computer science, economics, environmental studies, english language and literature, history, culture, information technology, psychology, religion, sociology, mathematics, statistics, engineering, architecture, etc. The total number of books are increasing every day. The GUB library subscribes substantial number of daily newspapers, magazines, fortnightly, and research journals. Different titles of news-clippings on current subjects related to the curricula as well as socio-economic aspects, national and international affairs will also be readily available for keeping the readers up-dated.

The library will have a seating capacity of 80 students and shelf space of over 10,000 volumes. It has separate reference and journals sections, which is one of the most up-to-date library in the country.

GUB is going to be a member of JSTOR on-line Archive (www.jstor.org). JSTOR is an organization committed to the electronic archiving of scholarly journals and literature. Computers, which provide on-line access to internet, are also located in the library. The Library has a wide range of books, research titles and periodicals on various subjects, a vast supply of videotapes, newspapers, magazines and journals. Arrangements for viewing video films on various subjects are also provided. The Library functions throughout the year and offers a silent, disciplined and learning atmosphere. This wide range of database resources which meets the needs of the students and academicians is managed by a professionally qualified librarian.

STUDY TOUR

Students have the opportunity to participate in study tour programs. The University places a strong emphasis on student’s directly experiencing works of art. It is also crucial to experience art produced in other parts of Bangladesh as well as overseas. For this reason the University undertakes regular study tours that aim to extend the breadth of knowledge about art and the contexts in which it is produced.