Former Bangladesh Institute of Technology, Chittagong, abbreviated as BIT Chittagong is presently Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET). It is one of the prominent and prestigious autonomous self-degree-awarding university in the engineering education of Bangladesh. This university was created out of Engineering College, Chittagong that was established in 1968. The Chittagong Engineering College functioned as the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Chittagong. Through a Government ordinance in 1986, the college was converted into an Institute of Technology. In 2003 this institute of technology was converted into a public university. The honorable President of Bangladesh is the Chancellor of the University.
At present, the university has 15 departments and 2 research centers. About 700 undergraduate students get admission into 9 degree awarding departments every year and the graduate programs (MSc, MEng, MPhill, PhD) are running under 8 departments.
To fulfill its mission and vision, it is inducing the brightest students in our undergraduate academic programs, through highly competitive admission test. Academic programs are complemented with the commitment to provide students a global career by the frequently updated curricula. In addition to dedicated faculty, the students are able to gather hands-on industry's experience as CUET is enjoying geographical advantages as the solitary engineering university at the south-east region of the country. Chittagong region holds its eminence for the country's premier sea-port, myriad of heavy and light industries.
In addition to the above, it is equally putting emphasis on joint collaboration in research programs with the number of internationally leading universities and institutions. As a disaster prone country, CUET has already started research based graduate program in disaster and environmental engineering, and set up an earthquake engineering research center with the assistance of global partners. Nevertheless, CUET is invariably focusing on more industry-academia relationships for the sake of invention and building leadership