Southeast University (Bangladesh)


Southeast University or SEU is a private university in Banani and Tejgaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh.It is one of the reputed private university in Bangladesh. The University was established under the Private University Act, 1992 approved by the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. Its permanent campus is in 251/A & 252, Tejgaon Industrial Area, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh. SEU ranked 12th among Top Private universities in Dhaka Tribune's Private University Ranking 2019

History and administration

Southeast University was established in June 2002 as a private university under the Private University Act 1992. The president of Bangladesh is the chancellor. The university is run by a number of statutory bodies as required under the provisions of the Private University Act, 1992.

Programs

Southeast University offers the following undergraduate, post graduate programs and diploma courses:

School of Science & Engineering

The distance education programs were discontinued to be compliant with the directives of Bangladesh Ministry of Education.

Library

Southeast University is linked with journal publishers through an international organisation named INASP/PERii. Bangladesh Academy of Sciences is acting as the coordinating body. This facility is IP based and work only within SEU campus. The SEU library offers regular services such as circulation, reference, counseling, indexing, bibliographical documentation, back up services, retrospective searches etc.
Southeast University has a library equipped with books on the academic programs offered as well as on research and extracurricular activities. The total collection of books and journals at is about 15000. The space area of the library is. It is a central library of the university rendering services to the students and faculty.

Term and Grading

Southeast University is modeled on the North American Open Credit system. It maintains tri-semester year with the exception of the Department of Pharmacy which maintains a bi-semester year. Southeast University semester timeline is as follow:
Letter grades indicating the quality of course work completed are interpreted as follows:
Class Intervals of ScoresLetter GradeGrade Points
80 – 100A+4.00
75 - 79A3.75
70 – 74A-3.50
65 – 69B+3.25
60 – 64B3.00
55 - 59B-2.75
50 – 54C+2.50
45 – 49C2.25
40 – 44D2.00
Less than 40F0.00

Traditional class equivalent as per MOE, GOB, notification dated 02.06.2009:
GPA 3.00-4.00= 1st class
GPA 2.25-2.99= 2nd class
GPA 1.65-2.24= 3rd class

Scholarships opportunities

SEU offers partial to full tuition fee waiver based on outstanding HSC or A-Level result. But the result based waiver is not applicable in case of break of study. Also each semester the top ranked students from every department based on semester GPA gets partial financial assistance. Limited need based financial assistance program is available for students with more than 3.00 semester GPA. Children of Freedom Fighters are eligible for full tuition waiver & it remains valid in the subsequent semesters if the semester result is within the requirement.

Clubs

The name of the official fifteen clubs are:
SEU has international relations and affiliations with other associations and universities around the world. SEU has international collaboration or MoU signed with these universities:
The university is member of some prestigious professional bodies including: