Chittagong College is a government college in Chittagong, Bangladesh. It is the second college established in Bangladesh after Dhaka College. It offers Higher Secondary Education, bachelor's degree and master's degree.
History
Having begun as Chittagong District school in 1836, it became an intermediate college in 1869. Its academic activities as a college started at a Portuguese-merchant built building beside the Parade Ground. The first principal was J C Bose. Initially, it used to offer law education, but the subject was suspended in 1909. In the same year it started providing science education in the intermediate section from the 1909. The institute became a graduation college in 1910 after University of Calcutta recognized it as a first class degree college. From then it started providing honours degrees on Arabic, Bengali, Pali, Sanskrit, history, mathematics, physics and chemistry. From 1919 it started supplementary courses on English, economics and philosophy. In 1942, honours courses in Economics started. The college suspended its honours programme in 1955. But, it reintroduced honours courses on English, Bangla, economics, physics, chemistry and mathematics in 1960. B.Sc. courses on zoology and botany and B.A. /B.Sc. course on statistics were introduced in 1962. In 1926, A. K. Fazlul Huq established Muslim Chattrabash which is now known as Sher-e-Bangla Chattrabas. The students of this institution participated in Language movement in 1952, Bengali Education movement in 1962 and Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
Affiliation
Faculties and departments
The college teaches honours and offers master's degrees in 17 subjects. Science and humanities are course for HSC student. The college has five academic buildings, a library with 60,000 books, a mosque, and an auditorium. The college has three academic buildings. one of them used as a foreign language teaching inclusive arts and an ICT lab based building.
The Department of English in Chittagong College is called Royal Department. Famous scholar Subodh Candra Sen Gupta joined in the department in 1933. It opened in 1910. The faculty comprises the following departments:
There are three male and one female student dormitories.
Saheed Sohrawordy dormitory: "A" block is for Muslim students and "B" block is for non-Muslim students.
Sher-e-Bangla dormitory
Dr. Abdus Sabur dormitory: for honours and master's students
Hazrat Khadizatul Kobra dormitory: for female students
Shekh Hasina dormitory: for female students
College ground
The college has a large ground known as Parade Ground. In this five acre ground students from the college and from other colleges play cricket, football, and volleyball. BNCC uses the ground.
Co-curricular activities
CCITC,Chittagong College Information Technology Club
BNCC, the college has the HQ of Karnaphuly battalion-2 of Bangladesh National Cadet Corp. Two Sections are Army Wing and Naval Wing
Chittagong College Information Technology Club (CCITC)
Chittagong College Information Technology Club was founded on February 2, 2020.It is a platform which provides students with opportunities to discuss various IT issues outside the classroom and enhance the skills of students other than regular curriculum.Current activities include: 1. Programming and Problem Solving 2. IoT and Robotics 3. Web Development and Graphic Design 4. Data Science and Machine Learning There is one class per week for any of the above four topics. To attend the classes being a member is mandatory. For more information: https://www.facebook.com/club.ccit
Other facilities
Two-storied mosque
Common rooms for male and female students. The common room for female students is a two-storied building.
Canteen between the auditorium and the administrative building
