Bangladesh Home Economics College in Panthapath, Dhaka

Bangladesh Home Economics College is a constituent college of the University of Dhaka. The University of Dhaka monitors the all-academic activities of the college while all administrative & financial issues are overseen by the Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh.

The College of Home Economics was founded by the American Ford Foundation & Oklahoma State University, USA, and the government of East Pakistan in the year 1961 with just twenty-five students. The University of Dhaka provided necessary initiatives and intellectual guidance to create an effective syllabus for the graduation & Post graduation program of the college. This responsibility now falls exclusively to the University of Dhaka. The Ford Foundation monitors the academic guidelines of the college and provides fellowships for its teachers, while all financial issues are overseen by the Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh.

 

The College of Home Economics is the first women's college for Home Economics in Bangladesh and seeks to make its students agents of transformation and development at different stages of life. Its conviction of empowering women through education has remained steadfast and today it has established itself as one of the premier institutes providing women's education in Bangladesh.