History of Jagannath University

Jagannath University

Jagannath University is situated in the southern part of the city of Dhaka near the Buriganga. This prestigious educational establishment has a history of about 150 years which started in 1858 when Dhaka Brahma School was founded in 1858 by Dinanath Sen, Prabhaticharan Roy, Anathbandhu Mallik and Brajasundar Kaitra. The name Jagannath school was given by Kishorilal Chowdhury, the Zamindar of Baliadi who took over the school in 1872 and renamed it after his father's name. In 1884, it was raised to a second grade college. Law was one of the first courses introduced in the college. A common management committee administered the school and college until 1887, when the school section was separated to form an independent school named Kishore Jubilee School. It is now known as K L Jubilee School. The administration of the college was transferred to a board of trustees in 1907. In the following year, it became a first grade college.

The college started with only 48 students and in five years, the roll raised to 396. In 1910, Raja Manmath Roy Chowdhury, the zamindar of Santosh, tangail affiliated the Pramath-Manmath College of Tangail with Jagannath College.It was known as the best equipped private college in Dhaka as early as 1910. With the establishment of Dhaka University in 1921 the college had to stop admission in Degree courses and was renamed Jagannath Intermediate College. This status was changed after 28 years in 1949, when it reopened Degree classes. The college was taken over by the government in 1968.

Jagannath College opened honours and masters programmes in 1975. That year the government once again took over the college and upgraded it into a postgraduate college. In 1982, the college closed its programmes of intermediate level.The college introduced evening shifts in 1992.The college was transformed into the Jagannath University in 2005. At present the University has 22 departments under 4 faculties. The faculties are Science, Arts, Business Studies and Social Science. Now 271 teachers are engaged in providing quality education of around 27000 students. on diverse areas. 

Jagannath College was converted into Jagannath University under ‘The Jagannath University Act 2005’ which was passed in the National Parliament of Bangladesh. Since Professor Dr. Sirajul Islam Khan joined the university as first Vice-Chancellor on February 8, 2006, 

The teachers and students of the college took active part in the Language Movement of the early 1950s, the mass movements of the 1960s and the War of Liberation of the country in 1971. The college produced tens of thousands graduates. Many of them have become famous at home and abroad. Noted among the alumni of the college are sufi motahar hosen (poet), Abdul Hamid (sports organiser and sports journalist), Bhabatosh Dutta (economist), Premendra Mitra (writer and poet), AR Yusuf (Bar-at-Law, State Minister of Bangladesh in early 1980s), A KMA Rouf (artist), Anisuzzaman (educationist, researcher), and Brozen Das (swimmer, the first Indian to swim across English Channel).

The Management of University is striving to make this establishment as a center of excellence for creating successful and productive citizens of Bangladesh.

Department of Management Studies

Background 

The Government Jagannath College was established in 1884 with a view to develop the education in this region. Department of Commerce was opened in 1942 in the Jagannath College. Department of Management was established in the year of 1972 just after the liberation war of Bangladesh to spread the light of business education. It introduced honours in Management in the session of 1972-73 and Master Degree in the following year.  

Features and Academic Programs of the Department

 

The Department of Management of Jagannath University is pioneer in the business education of Bangladesh. It is committed to provide the highest educational standard to cope with the growing business environment. The department is empowered to provide teaching for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) and Master of Business Studies (MBS), Masters of Business Administration (MBA) as per the rules and regulations of the university.  

Many dignified academicians and scholars of commerce rendered their services in the department. Prof. Md. Ashraf Hossain was the first Chairman as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Business Studies’, followed by Professor Tofail Ahmed and Professor Anisur Rahman. At Present this department is being headed by Professor Dr. Md. AKM Moniruzzaman with the coordination of Professor Dr. Md. Mossarof Hossian the Dean of the Faculty of Business Studies.  

There are about 4000 (four thousand) students enrolled in the department. Among them 400 students continuing in the BBA First  Year 2nd  Semester and Second Year 1st Semester (2005 -06 & 2006 -07 sessions) and rest of the students are in the BBS honors and Master degree Courses.  

MBA Program

Masters of Business Administration launched at July 2009. Dept. of Management Studies started this program with 415 students. 

The MBA program is one of the demanding and highly accepted programs in the region. The program has constantly updated and monitored by a high-power, independent academic council. This program emphasizes discussion, seminar, workshop, and project based method. It also digs into managerial experience and research, and research based learning in combination with textbooks. The MBA is also a professional degree that builds skills in graduates enabling them to make effective decisions in management. This has done using a diverse mode of pedagogy, from class lecturing to group assignments to industry experts, field visits and seminar attendance. The curricula has developed keeping in mind that these specializations would enable graduates to pursue business careers.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

Committed to continuous improvement, the Department of Management Studies are a collaborative learning community dedicated to the creation and sharing of knowledge that places special emphasis on developing cutting edge, best business practices. The special objectives of MBA program are:

·        To pursue vigorous improvement in the quality of higher education through dedicated commitment to teaching, training and research.

·        To develop competence necessary for the effective management of business, government & service organizations in a dynamic environment.

·        To developed the kinds of analytical skills necessary to deal with various economic, social, moral & political issues related to business.

·        To promote the intellectual growth of the students admitted to the program.

Career Scope

MBA application may wish to pursue a popular career path such as business consulting, management consulting, finance and banking, venture capital and insurance, etc. In fact with an MBA degree one can pave the way to have his/her place in the right track of the modern world business in all its dimension

Course Outline and Program Duration

Jagannath University introduces three semesters (each semester 4- month) in a academic year. Therefore, the 45 cr. Points can be completed in 3 semesters. 1 Viva-voce of 3 cr. Points and an Internship and project paper in 6 cr. Points

Course Structure

First semester

MGT 5101 Strategic Management MGT 5102 Business Society MGT 5103 Total Quality Management MGT 5104 Human Resource Planning and Policy MGT 5105 Cost and Management Accounting

Second Semester

MGT 5206 Organization Development MGT 5207 Project Management MGT 5208 Small and Medium Enterprises Management MGT 5209 Bank and Insurance Management MGT 5210 Management Information Systems

Third Semester

MGT  5311 Management Science MGT 5312 International Business MGT 5313 Supply Chain Management MGT 5314 Security Analysis and Portfolio Management MGT 5315 Research Methodology

Viva-Voce                                :        100 Marks

Internship and Project Paper with defense:    200 Marks

Particular	Total No. of Course & Viva-Voce	Marks in each Course & Viva-Voce	Total Marks	Cr. points in each Course & Viva-Voce	Total Credit Points
Taught Course	15	100	1500	3.00	45
Viva-voce	1 time	100	100	3.00	3
Internship and Project paper			200		6
Grand Total			1800		54

Passing Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA): 2.50