Rajshahi University (RU) has attained its place among the 500 top universities in Asia.
Times Higher Education (THE), a periodical related to education based in the United Kingdom (UK), has recently published a ranking list of 2024 showing RU's place among 401-500.
In the list, 21 universities in Bangladesh including RU have come, said a press release issued by RU public relations office on Thursday.
The ranking list has been made based on some indicators, including education standard, teachers-students ratio, research standard and citation rate and international students.
Published in THE's website on April 30 the list showed RU, Dhaka University and BRAC University grabbed the third position jointly among Bangladesh's universities.
The release added that RU Vice-chancellor (VC) Professor Golam Sabbir Sattar has joined a conference on 'Going Global Asia Pacific' held in Singapore in November 2022 and talked with the THE education and research officials about planning towards taking the RU to world standard through development.
Subsequently, the VC has adopted all sorts of time-fitting steps and implemented those efficiently.
