Rangpur University

Rangpur University
Established	2008
Type	public
Chancellor	President Mohammad Zillur Rahman
Vice-Chancellor	Professor Abdul Jalil[1]
Location	Rangpur, Bangladesh
Campus	75 acres (300,000 m2), Adjacent to Carmichael College and Rangpur Cadet College
Website	http://www.brur.ac.bd/

Rangpur University is a government financed public university in Bangladesh. It is the fourth public university in Rajshahi Division. This university is renamed as Begum Rokeya University.

The university will be located between Rangpur Cadet College and Carmichael College in Rangpur. The campus is under construction. Currently, the university is operating at Teachers Training College in Rangpur.

Since 1947, a university in this region has been a long cherished dream. A popular demand for a kind of university which can reach out to a large number of students desiring higher education in this vast region has always been intensely felt but has never been fulfilled. In 2001, the then Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina laid the foundations of Rangpur University of Science and Technology. However, later on the establishment was cancelled. It was not until August 2007 when Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed, Chief Advisor of the Caretaker Government, agreed in principle to establish a full fledged university in Rangpur.[4] Finally, Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmad, in a historic cabinet meeting held in Rangpur on February 2, 2008, took the decision to establish a University in Rangpur. The Rangpur University Ordinance was approved by the cabinet on June 15, 2008.[5] Professor M Lutfar Rahman was appointed the first Vice Chancellor on 20 October 2008. Two days later Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman, the then Education and Commerce Advisor to the Caretaker Government formally inaugurated Rangpur University.