Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
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Veterinary Varsity / CVASU | |
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| Type | Public, coeducational |
|---|---|
| Established | 7 August 2006 |
| Chancellor | President Abdul Hamid |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof. Dr. Goutam Buddha Das |
| Dean |
Prof. Md. A. Halim (FVM) |
Academic staff | 3 |
| Students | 1200+ |
| Undergraduates | 1000+ |
| Postgraduates | 150+ |
| 10+ | |
| Location | Khulshi, Chittagong, Bangladesh |
| Campus | Main campus (In City area), Research and Farm based campus (Hathazari), Fisheries research and Wildlife conversation Centre (Coxsbazar), Pet Hospital, Research and Training Institute (Dhaka) |
| Nickname | CVASU |
| Website | cvasu.ac.bd |
Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) (Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম ভেটেরিনারি ও এনিম্যাল সাইন্সেস বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a public university in Bangladesh. It is the only specialised veterinary university in Bangladesh. It is located at Khulshi, Chittagong. The chancellor of the university is president Abdul Hamid.
The fifth Annual Scientific Conference of Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University was held in 2007.[1] Recently, on 19th September, 2017, the 3rd National DVM Intern Research Conference, 2017 was held.
History
Chittagong Veterinary And Animal Sciences University(CVASU) was established as "Chittagong Government Veterinary College (CGVC)" in the year of 1995–96."Chittagong Government Veterinary College (CGVC)" started its journey in "January 1996" by admitting 50 students in its first academic session under the affiliation of "Faculty of Science" of University of Chittagong."Chittagong Government Veterinary College (CGVC) was upgraded to Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) on 7 August 2006; under the CVASU act, 2006.[2]
Degrees offered
- Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.): five years including a one-year internship (off-campus work-based learning). The D.V.M. course consists of 25% animal production, 10% social science courses and the remaining is for veterinary disciplines.
- B.Sc. Honours in Food Science & Technology (FST)
- B.Sc. Honours in Fisheries (FF)
- Master of Science (M.S.)
Faculties
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Faculty of Food Science & Technology
- Faculty of Fisheries
Departments
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Department of Anatomy & Histology
- Department of Animal Science & Nutrition
- Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Science
- Department of Dairy & Poultry Science
- Department of Genetics & Animal Breeding
- Department of Medicine & Surgery
- Department of Microbiology & Veterinary Public Health
- Department of Pathology & Parasitology
- Department of Physiology, Biochemistry & Pharmacology
Faculty of Food Science & Technology
- Department of Applied Chemistry & Chemical Technology
- Department of Physical & Mathematical Science
- Department of Applied Food science & Nutrition
- Department of Food Processing & engineering
Faculty of Fisheries
- Department of Aquaculture
- Department of Fisheries Resources Management
- Department of Fishing & Post Harvest Technology
- Department of Marine Bio-Resources Science
- Department of Fish Biology & Biotechnology
Specialty
The undergraduate study programme, with a compulsory one-year internship in different placements which was inaugurated by this university, is a major breakthrough in the veterinary education policy in Bangladesh. Since its establishment students are regularly doing their internship at all Government research center and hospital as well as Madras veterinary college under TANUVAS, India which was first aboard-undergraduate internship program of public universities in Bangladesh, recently the university has started to send their student for doing internship at Tufts University, USA and several universities of Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, Japan, India. The university is thought to be one of the fastest growing universities in the country particularly for its scientific research efforts. University authorities have always focused on research, which in turn organizes International Internships seminar, International Scientific Conference every year where reputed scientists from several countries come and share their knowledge with the students. It is only public university of Bangladesh which has three research institutes in three separate zones. Significant number of its alumni are studying in abroad and published research findings in different prestigious journals and achieved International Award. They are going to lead a better position in every government and private sector of Veterinary, Fisheries and Food industry in Bangladesh.
Research, Training and Extension (R&D)
As part of its aim to build it as a centre of excellence in teaching and research, CVASU has been working and looking forward to develop and focusing research activities and resources to support and keeping its faculty members at the forefront of new technologies and development in the field of Veterinary and fisheries education quality enhancement, Livestock and Fisheries development and applied policy support, feed and feed technological innovation, application of advanced molecular techniques in disease diagnosis, Industry-Institute partnership and multidisciplinary research.
Primarily CVASU aims to project their research activities upon the multidisciplinary areas of Animal health, Production and Veterinary extension services. The faculty members are therefore, grouped into 3 basic research group including Small Animal and poultry health and production, Large Animal health and production and a Socio- economic group to assist the other two groups in executing, analysing and extension of their research findings. However, at this stage of development a number of national and international funded research project have completed funded by Higher Education Link (DFID), UK, British Council, PLDP, BARC, and various research projects are ongoing funded by Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) by UGC, BARC, RFLDC through DANIDA, BAS-USDA, FAO.
Poultry Research and Training Centre (PRTC)
The Poultry Research and Training Centre (PRTC) has been established on 11 March 2008 with the financial support from Agricultural Sector Programme Support (ASPS) II of Danida at the Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) campus, within the legal framework of the university Act 2006 (Act 30 of 2006). PRTC is an autonomous institution, in accordance with the provision of the university Act 16 July 2006. In recent years, Dr. Muhammad Kabirul Islam Khan, from Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, was invented a new breed crossed between Faomi and indigenous chicken which will grow rapidly as Faomi but the taste of the meat will as the indigenous chicken. [³]
Campus Life
Students from all across Bangladesh and abroad study at CVASU. The campus has separate modern hostels for men and women. All of the students have enough residential accommodation facilities. The campus provides indoor and outdoor recreation facilities including sports ground. Students have enough interest and competence on sports, debate, photography, writing, cultural and various recreational activities.
References
- ↑ World Veterinary Association, 5th Annual Scientific Conference of Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Theme: Role of Life-Long Learning in Professional Development Archived 29 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.