City Desk :
North South University is the first privately established university in Bangladesh, approved in 1992. It is now attended by over 22,000 students. A large portion of the university’s income is spent on waiving tuition fees for meritorious and poor students. The children of more than four hundred freedom fighters are studying here for free.
Azim Uddin Ahmed is one of the few private entrepreneurs who has turned it country’s one of the best private universities by overcoming hundreds of challenges through the dedicated efforts of education-loving entrepreneurs. He is a life member of the University Board of Trustees and is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. “The NSU has taken a number of good initiatives on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,” he said.
Marking the occasion, a financial grant has been provided for the 100-day online quiz competition based on the life and work of the Father of the Nation organized with the help of the Ministry of Education and University Grants Commission. More than 1 crore students from different parts of the country have participated in this competition.
A special book titled ‘Bangabandhu and Bangladesh’ has been published by North South University on the occasion of the centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Education Minister Dipu Moni MP unveiled the cover of the book in Bengali and English considering the readers of different levels. Besides, the NSU has set up ‘Bangabandhu and Liberation War Corner’ in the library. In this corner, the unfinished biography of the father of the nation and the diary of the prison and more than 2000 books on the liberation war of Bangladesh have been preserved in this corner.
Azim Uddin Ahmed said that they have taken many initiatives against COVID-19. “During this pandemic hour, NSU sanctioned Tk. 115 Crore as COVID Special Tuition Waiver to its students. A total number of 1334 children of freedom fighters received full free studentship at NSU since inception of Private University Act 2010,” he said.
Besides, a total grant of Tk. 88 crore has been disbursed as COVID Special Tution waiver to all students in the wake of Pandemic (Summer’20-Spring’21) excluding regular tuition waiver to students. 54 students have been entertained with financial aid as special case of the pandemic who lost COVID victims / lost their parent/s .
The NSU has kept its academic activities online in line with the developed world. Following this, for the second time in a row, NSU has got the status of # 1 QS World University Ranking 2021 Private University in Bangladesh.
