Asian University of Bangladesh - AUB

is also accredited overseas. The efforts to establish this university date back to 1990 when the idea was first mooted out by a life-long educationist, the founder of AUB, Professor Abulhasan M. Sadeq, to import high quality education as widely as possible from an inter-disciplinary, integrated ethico-human approach reflecting our values, heritage and principles. Efforts continued for mobilizing a pool of academic resources from experienced and committed Bangladeshi academicians attached to overseas universities. The academic programs of AUB have been prepared by experts with co-operation from reputed overseas universities to meet international standards of education. A Unique University
AUB is a leading private university in Bangladesh. Its salient features include the following:

1. AUB provides higher education at a comparatively aordable cost in the country, allowing eco-nomically weak guardians to educate their wards at an institution of higher learning. As such ithas been playing an important role in human resource development and thus in the socio-economicdevelopment of the country.

2. The academic curriculum of AUB has been developed with the help of experts from reputed uni-versities, at home and abroad, to provide high quality education comparable to that of world-classuniversities.

3. In academic programs, AUB has adopted an inter-disciplinary approach so that the graduates ofAUB are equipped with multi-dimensional insights to face the challenges of real life in the complexmodern world.

4. The curricula and the co-curricular activities have been integrated with ethical and moral valuesso that the AUB graduates become morally upright and professionally sound. Library Facilities

AUB has a rich library from which students can borrow textbooks, reference books, journals, and audio-visual materials. Library resources include printed materials, lms, videos and CDs. Co-curricular Activities

AUB believes in an integrated approach to education. Accordingly, with an objective to produce anintegrated personality among students, AUB has adopted some co-curricular programs for the students.These are as follows.

1. Academic Activities
2. Community Service
3. Morality Development and Cultural Activities
4. Sports and Game

The academic activities of students include seminars, workshops, debate, programming contests, softwarecompetitions, and so on, which help the students expand their knowledge and gain experience and trainingin academic pursuits beyond their textbooks and courses. The community service inculcates among the students a sense of responsibility to the community, nation,and humanity at large. This includes assistance (relief) to the victims of natural calamities, help to theneedy, blood donations, and so on. AUB dierentiates between literacy and education. Literacy refers to professional skills alone, whileeducation incorporates moral and ethical development. The elements of ethics and morality have beenincorporated in both curricular and co-curricular activities of AUB, including seminars and talks onmoral issues. Besides, AUB supports student sports, which are important for both physical development and a soundstate of mind. AUB students are also active in sports and games. They have participated in nationalinter-university sports tournaments and have done well in them. Students of AUB spend an active life beyond their studies in accordance with the co-curricular activitiesplanned by both AUB and by the students themselves. In debate, AUB teams participated at inter-university competitions and became winners at a debate competition organized by Bangladesh Television,and also did well in international competitions in Malaysia and other countries. They regularly organizeseminars and workshops in which VIPs like ministers, scholars and academicians participate. The students of AUB are active in community service. They mobilize relief funds, distribute them to thevictims of calamities, and also provide assistance to the poor in slum areas. AUB received \The BestMotivator of the Year" award in blood donation, awarded by the Sandhani, Dhaka Medical College. Besides, in morality and culture, AUB students organize seminars and talks to inculcate and strengthenmoral values among the students. However, all kinds of direct political activism are prohibited at AUB. Philosophy and Mission :

"Knowledge with action" is the basis of human welfare, provided it upgrades human quantities and faculties as well as professional skills. Such knowledge is a right as well as an obligation of every human being, which should be provided by a system of universal education. Besides, a nation's identity should be reflected in it's education system. Based on this philosophy, AUB's mission is to disseminate knowledge in an ethico-human approach reflecting identity of our nation with its heritage, values and principles. Objectives :

The specific objectives of AUB are as follows:
(a). To provide high quality education for human resource development so as to enable the students to compete in the modern world. To disseminate knowledge in an ethico-human approach integrating our national heritage, values and principles with a view to produce graduates who are professionally sound and morally upright. To make such education accessible to all groups of people in the country, including the general masses of the population, rural as well as urban, fresh students as well as working people. To provide a conductive academic atmosphere for intelligent development of the youth in an environment free from political and other disturbances. (e). To contribute to moral uplift of the people and create a society of tolerance to co-exist in pease and harmony in a healthy atmosphere. (f). To conduct and support research for development of knowledge and for socio-economic development of the country. Overseas Linkages and Accreditation

AUB has established linkages with overseas universities for axademic cooperation in education and research. Accordingly, AUB has signed memoranda of understanding with the following universities:

(a). University of West Florida, USA. Ashland University, Ohio, USA. University of Southern Queensland, Australia. University of Jordan, Jordan. International Islamic University, Malaysia. University of Yarmouk, Jordan. (g). Tehran University, Iran. (h). University Tun Abdul Razak(UNITAR), Malaysia. Besides, cooperative arrangements with several other universities are in progress. Under an agreement, AUB students may study 50% of the courses at AUB and the remaining 50% of the courses at Ashland University, USA, for a degree from Ashland University. Also, AUB students will be able to switch to the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia, for a USQ degree with credit transfer at any point of their studies and also to UNITAR, Malaysia with similar facilities. Credit transfer facilities are available with a number of other universities as well. AUB is accredited by, and is a full member of APICS, which is Switzerland-based body for accreditation of universities and international cooperation in education. Furthermore, a number of scholars, academicians and educationists from overseas universities are associated with AUB in advisory and other cooperative capacities, who provide valuable input in its academic development and quality assurance.