About KUET
Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), started functioning from September 2003, is one of the five technological Universities in Bangladesh having an objective of achieving excellence in higher education, research and development in engineering and technology. This university was established as Khulna Engineering College in 1974, the college was later converted to a degree awarding autonomous institution called Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT), Khulna in July 1986 through an ordinance (No. XXI, 1986) of Government of Bangladesh. With a view to providing more opportunity and autonomy for the improvement in the quality of higher education and research in engineering and technology, the Institute was upgraded and renamed as Khulna University of Engineering and Technology in September 2003 under the “Khulna University of Engineering and Technology Act, 2003”.
Khulna University of Engineering and Technology Campus is situated at Fulbarigate, 11 km north from the Khulna city and by the side of the Khulna-Jessore highway. The university campus extends over an area of 101 acres. Tastefully laid out with beautiful plantation and with buildings of various nature and stature, clean and wide roads the campus presents a spectacle of harmony in architecture and natural beauty. The campus is fully residential providing comfortable social life. The campus provides several essential amenities for community living like mosque, medical center, shopping center, bank, post office, auditorium and playing fields etc.
The university is financed by the Government through the University Grants Commission. The university is an autonomous statutory organization of the Government of Bangladesh functioning within the “Khulna University of Engineering and Technology Act, 2003”. There are various statutory bodies like Syndicate, Academic Council, Finance Committee, Planning and Development Committee, Committee for Advance studies and Research, different Academic Committees etc. for policy and decision making on different aspects of the university under the frame work of the Act.
At present there are 132 faculty members, 143 postgraduate students and 1744 under graduate students of which 15 foreign students. There are students from defense service
KUET offers B. Sc. Engineering degree in undergraduate program as well as M. Sc. Engineering, M.Phil. & Ph.D degree in postgraduate program.
