University Admissions
Fate of 100000 students uncertain for seat crisis
Around 100,000 students who have passed the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations this year would not be able to get admitted into the country’s public and private universities due to lack of sufficient seats.
A total of 574,261 students—310,849 male and 263,412 female—came out successful in this year’s examination. A total of 764,828 students—413,675 male and 351,153 female—sat for the exam.
Sources at the University Grants Commission (UGC) said as many as 473,000 seats are available in public and private universities, and colleges. Of them, around 34,000 seats are available in 29 public universities while 65,312 in 51 private universities and the rest in Bangladesh Open University and National University-affiliated colleges.
The smiling faces of many successful students, even highest Grade Point Average (GPA)-5 achievers, have started getting pale on the day of result publication thinking over the admissions in renowned universities for higher education.
Among the successful students, 39,759 secured GPA-5 which is 10,765 more than that of the previous year.
That means over 5,500 GPA-5 holders will not get chance to get themselves admitted into the public universities as those can accommodate only 34,000 students.
According to UGC statistics, Dhaka University has 5,467 seats while Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) 911, Jahangirnagar University 1,606 and Rajshahi University has 3,075 seats for the first year honours students.
As a result, the successful students will have to go through a tough competition to get chances to get admitted into renowned the public universities.
Meanwhile, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid and UGC Chairman Prof AK Azad Chowdhury on Wednesday said none of the successful students will be deprived of getting higher education.
The education minister said the number of seats in universities and colleges is more than that of the successful students.
“The students who passed the HSC examination will be able to get admitted into universities and colleges as there are enough seats for them,” he said at a press conference at his office.
The UGC chairman said they will take steps to increase seats in public and private universities if needed.
-WIth Daily Sun input
