Bangladesh University of Professionals

Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) is a public university in Dhaka, based inside Mirpur Cantonment. It is run by the Bangladesh Armed Forces and teaches both military personnel and self-financed civilian students. It was established in 2008.

Rankings

• Ulkaa Edu Rank 2027: 11th overall. For positions 1 to 14, the position reflects Ulkaa's admission competitiveness assessment. In the same edition it is 9th among public universities and 6th in the Dhaka division.
• THE World University Rankings 2026: listed as a Reporter, which means the university supplied data but has no numeric rank.
• Webometrics 2024: world rank 8096.

BUP has no QS ranking entry in the Ulkaa data.

The Ulkaa score behind that position is 81, with 86.2% data coverage. The published figures show about 9,720 students and 515 teachers in 2023, which works out to roughly 19 students per teacher.

BUP was founded on 5 June 2008 as the 31st public university of Bangladesh, and it works under the Bangladesh University of Professionals Act, 2009. Its motto is "Excellence Through Knowledge".

The university serves military personnel and self-financed civilians. It also oversees 56 military educational institutions as affiliates, according to its Wikipedia entry.

The main campus covers about 75 acres (30 hectares) in Mirpur Cantonment. As of 2022 the Vice-Chancellor is a Major General of the Bangladesh Army.

BUP awards degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level, with MPhil and PhD study run through its research centre.

For the 2025-26 session, BUP took undergraduate applications online and ran its own admission test. Rules change each year, so read the current circular on the official website before you apply.

• Eligibility: SSC and HSC (or equivalent) in any group, with HSC passed in the two most recent years. Minimum GPA depends on the faculty. Science and Technology asked for a combined GPA of 9.00 across SSC and HSC, while Arts and Social Sciences asked for 8.00 from Science and Business Studies candidates and 7.50 from Humanities candidates.
• Test: 100 marks of multiple-choice questions, with 0.50 deducted for each wrong answer. Candidates needed at least 40% in English to qualify.
• Merit list: 55% test, 25% HSC result, 20% SSC result.

In 2025 the Ulkaa data records 79,731 applicants in total. First-year enrolment was 3,859 students in 2023.

Seats are limited. First-year enrolment was 3,859 students in 2023, while 79,731 people applied in 2025. The two figures come from different years, so do not read them as a seat ratio.

BUP teaches through five faculties: Business Studies, Security and Strategic Studies, Arts and Social Sciences, Science and Technology, and Medical Studies. The Ulkaa programme list holds 17 undergraduate programmes taken from the university's academic pages.

• Business: BBA, plus BBA in Accounting and Information Systems, Finance and Banking, Management Studies, and Marketing.
• Science and technology: BSc in Computer Science and Engineering, and BSc in Information and Communication Engineering.
• Arts and social sciences: BSS (Hons) in Economics, Development Studies, International Relations, and Mass Communication and Journalism; BA (Hons) in English; Sociology.
• Other: LLB (Hons) in Law, BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science, and Bachelor of Pharmacy.

One programme appears in the Pharmacy Council of Bangladesh accreditation register (2026 count). In 2023 the university reported 9,720 students and 515 teachers, of whom 188 held a PhD.

Postgraduate research is organised through the Centre for Higher Studies and Research, which offers MPhil and PhD degrees, and the BUP Research Centre, which supports faculty research and consultancy.

OpenAlex records 1,889 works linked to BUP over the five years to 2025, with 8.48 citations per work, and an h-index of 90 in 2026. In 2025 the largest subject counts were in business (303 works), computer science (211) and medicine (129).

Those works drew 16,022 citations over the same window. Yearly output was 554 works in 2025, up from 447 in 2024 and 309 in 2023.

The campus sits inside Mirpur Cantonment. Students who live on campus use two 14-storey residential halls with a combined capacity of about 2,000.

Other facilities listed on the university's Wikipedia entry include four cafeterias, a medical centre, a library of about 28,000 books, an ICT centre running a campus ERP system, two auditoriums and sports grounds.

Check the official site for the current list of clubs and halls before you apply.