The Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST)

About University

The Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) was founded by the Dhaka Ahsania Mission in 1995. Dhaka Ahsania Mission is a non-profit voluntary organization in Bangladesh.

The Mission was established in 1958 by Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, an outstanding educationist and social reformer of undivided India. With his own vision of a better society, characterized by a wealth of moral and spiritual values of the highest humanism that are universally acclaimed through ages and manifested in every sphere of life social, economic and cultural; and access to education and resources, he established the Mission. His remarkable educational reforms include among others introduction of roll number system in the public examination and creating equal opportunity for education of all groups of people in the society.

Besides, he has contributed to the society by writing a large number of books covering a wide range of areas from human and social life, history, human development, literature, religion, biography, moral values etc.

Though initially charity and welfare activities were the major focus of the Mission agenda, it has expanded its arena of activities leaning towards sustainable development strategies with the passage of time since early 1980s.

The University aims at—

• offering need-based programs in science, engineering, business and social sciences;
• designing programs covering all leading fields and disciplines of science, engineering, business, and social sciences including teachers’ training;
• reviewing programs in light of the modern trends, need and development of science, engineering, business, social sciences, and human resource following the local and global employment opportunities and market needs;
• organizing programs in science, engineering, business, and social science including teachers’ training for awarding degrees, diplomas, and certificates of proficiency at all levels; and
• gradually expanding programs as per the rules and regulations of the Private University Act, 2010 in light with the local and global demands

Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology has been ranked as the topmost University of Bangladesh in the field of Engineering by the Spain based SCIMAGO according to the Ranking 2021 published by the Research Institution. ( Source:  Link: https://www.scimagoir.com/rankings.php?country=BGD&ranking=Overall&area=2200 ). Twenty One public and private Universities of Bangladesh have ensured their positions in the list which include 7,533 Universities of the World. AUST has been ranked as the 507th in the list of the Universities of the world. The ranking has been made based on research performance, innovation outputs and social impact measured by web visibility of the Universities. All organizations that have published at least 100 studies in the Scopus database are considered for this ranking and AUST ranks topped the country's SCIMAGO Institutions rankings this year.