The Campus:
Chattogram is a picturesque city of vivid beauty with lush green hills and colorful landscapes. The Bay of Bengal, only about 15 kilometers to the east of the city, has made it a delightful coastal city to live in. The university has several academic buildings scattered over many areas, which are very close to Chattagram zero point, the railway station, the central bus depot, and can be reached within 5 to 10 minutes from any one of these points. The university provides the students with quality infrastructure – classrooms air-conditioned with built-in multimedia devices, computer facilities, well-structured labs, and libraries.
The Faculty:
The teaching staff of the university consist of highly qualified full-time teachers with solid academic background in their respective disciplines. The university also invites adjunct teachers from other universities, business houses, government organizations and research bodies. Senior executives from multinational corporations and foreign banks offer, on invitation, lectures on real life ambience of their organizations. Occasionally, Premier University also invites visiting professors from foreign universities.
Quality
Education:
Premier
University has been imparting quality education since its inception, ensured by
highly qualified teachers, supportive administration, and a large pool of
learning resources. Premier University prepares a student to face the
challenges of the world; its open credit system provides a student a better
choice to go abroad for higher studies. Many alumni of Premier University are
now occupying important positions in many renowned universities, including
universities across the USA, European Union and the UK. Premier University puts
great emphasis on creative learning, too.
Classrooms:
Classrooms
of the university are equipped with AC, fixed multimedia projectors, and other
modern and necessary implements and appliances.
Computer
Lab:
The
university has several state-of-the-art computer labs with more than 500
computers. These labs are staffed by professional systems managers and lab
assistants. The students can access to all kinds of computer facilities as part
of supervised classes by instructors and/or on their own to complete
assignments in related courses.
Library:
The
Premier University has one central library supported by four Department seminar
libraries located in three separate academic buildings, feeding the needs of
the students. These libraries have rich collections of books, periodicals, and
research journals and materials on related areas of knowledge. The services of
the Central Library include lending of text books, providing assistance to
students and rendering reference and bibliographical services. The libraries
are fully automated through KOHA (Integrated Library Management System), while
they subscribe to world renowned
e-resources, e.g. Academic Search, Premier EBSCO host, the ACM Digital
Library, Annual Reviews, Brills, Cambridge University Press, Duke University
Press, EBSCO CMMC, EBSCO Host Research Databases, Edinburgh University Press,
Emerald, IEEE Explore Digital Library, IMF e-Library, Indian Journals, JSTOR
(Partial), Palgrave Macmillan Journals, Project MUSE, Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics, Springer e-Journals, Taylor and Francis e-Bestseller
Packages, University of Chicago Journal, Willey Online Library, etc., through
ISAP-PERII and UGC Digital Library Consortium. To sum up, more than 25,000
online journal articles, 70,000 e-books, 1700 world renowned e-magazines can be
accessed and downloaded from Premier University LAN and Wi-Fi zones. In addition, the central library
subscribes to all major local and national dailies on a reguler basis. The
Central Library has also archived around 24,000 volumes of printed books which
are available to readers.
Academic
Activity Automation:
PU offers
online-based course registration and advising systems where students can complete
their course registration for each semester, print class schedules and course registration
details, and check their examination grades. Faculty members also benefit from
a centrally-governed online integrated faculty resource-system, which allows
for tasks like grade submission to be performed securely, remotely and easily.
The IT office that provides these services also maintains hardware, software
and network infrastructure at PU, with an easy repairing facility cell.
Campus
and Club Activities:
Premier
University ensures the opportunities for broadening the experience of students
and staff through participation in sports, music, drama, visual arts, and other
cultural activities. As a result, the
students of Premier University are actively involved in several kinds of
extra-curricular activities. Students enthusiastically participate in the
activities of the Debating Clubs, Language Clubs, Photography Clubs,
Programming Clubs, Robotics Clubs, and Cultural Clubs. Till date, our students
have won numerous National Awards by participating in different national events
through the aforementioned clubs.
Sports:
In order
to ensure an all-round growth of the students, Premier University has formed a
Central Sports Body, called PU Sports Development Committee, which has been organizing
different sports i.e. cricket, football, indoor games, etc., for the students
round the year on campus. Students have so far successfully participated and
won national and international awards in cricket and football events held in
Dhaka and Chattogram at home, and in India.