Khulna University of Engineering & Technology - Fulbari 6.22

Khulna University of Engineering & Technology commonly known as KUET, formerly BIT, Khulna, is a public engineering university of Bangladesh emphasizing education and research on engineering and technology. This is a renowned university for the study of engineering in Khulna, Bangladesh.HistoryKhulna University of Engineering & Technology, which started functioning from September 2003, is one of the five public engineering universities of Bangladesh 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, Khulna in July 1986 through a government ordinance .The institute was upgraded to university and renamed as Khulna University of Engineering and Technology in September 2003 under the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology Act, 2003. KUET is financed by the government through the University Grants Commission. The university is an autonomous statutory organization of the Government of Bangladesh. There are statutory bodies like Syndicate, Academic Council, Finance Committee, Planning and Development Committee, Committee for Advance Studies and Research, Academic Committees, etc. for policy- and decision-making on aspects of the university under the framework of the Act.AcademicsAcademic structureThe academic division of KUET is organized in 18 departments under three faculties. Fourteen departments offer undergraduate courses. Among them Department of Industrial Engineering and Management ( IEM ) provides Industrial and Production Engineering (IPE) degree to the undergraduate students.