About the Department
The Department of Public Administration is one of the leading Departments in the University with remarkable academic and research experiences.
History Timeline
Public Administration was initiated as a one-year Masters programme at the Department of Political Science.
Started its academic journey with an undergraduate programme (BSS Hons).
The Department of Public Administration was officially established on 1st July 1972.Since its establishment, the Department has been conducting undergraduate and post graduate academic programs and offering BSS (Honours) and MSS degrees. The four year BSS and one year MSS programs of the Department have strong theoretical and quantitative orientation.
The Department started offering M. Phil & Ph. D degrees
Transitioned to the semester system for all academic courses and examinations.
The dynamic leadership of its founding Chairman Professor Nur Mohammad Mia and the efforts of other faculty members enormously helped the Department to attain the present stage of excellence where All students are required to take the core courses like Introduction to Public Administration, Management, Personnel and Human Resources Management, Financial Administration, Comparative Public Administration, Sociology of Administration, Urban and Local Governance Etc.
Honor Board (Former Chairpersons)
(July, 1973 - June, 1976 and April, 1980 - April, 1983)
Mr. Nur Mohammad Mia
(April, 1977 - April,1980)
Dr. Lutful Hoq Chowdhury
(April, 1983 - April, 1986 and june, 2009 - July, 2009)
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Mohabbat Khan
(11/5/1989 - 10/5/1992)
Mr. Md. Mufazzalul Hoque
(December, 1993 - August, 1997)
Prof. Md. Asaduzzaman
(August, 1997 - August, 2000)
Prof. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(August, 2000 - 31/12/2002)
Prof. Zarina Rahman Khan
(1/1/2003 - 30/6/2006)
Prof. Mahbubur Rahman
(July, 2006 - June, 2009)
Prof. Dr. Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah
(July, 2012 - July, 2015)
Prof. Dr. Musleh Uddin Ahmed
(April, 2024 - September, 2025)
Prof. Dr. Naznin Islam
Our Mission
- We seek to inspire and promote higher education and research in governance, administration and public policy that constantly stimulates critical thinking, intellectual curiosity and innovation adaptive to the ever-changing society.
- We pledge to uphold the principles of free exchange of ideas and foster a spirit of collaboration, understanding and openness.
- We nurture our students as future leaders with a clear sense of duty for making effective contribution to the positive transformation that our society is witnessing and also to the achievement of the development aspirations of our nation.
Our Vision
The Department aspires to be recognized as an inquiry-driven, academically engaged entity and a centre of continual learning that stimulates intellectual transformation of students, advances their frontiers of knowledge and creates future leaders to serve this spectacularly ever-growing