Answer: Higher education system in Bangladesh has a long way of more than one hundred and fifty years of intellectual development. There are 35 government, 79 private and 3 international universities. At the higher level, universities are regulated by the University Grants Commission. The colleges providing higher education are under the National University. Although the number of government and private universities and colleges has been steadily increasing since Bangladesh gained independence in 1971, the enrollment completion rates are still very low. Because of limited number of seats in public universities and high tuition fees charged by the private universities, access to university education is rather limited. In the late 1990s the government gave priority to human resource development and emphasized "Education for All" as a target. Recent five year plans provide for a larger proportion of national budgets for opening additional colleges and universities especially in the area of medicine, science and information technology. The Bangladesh National University, to which many hundreds of colleges and affiliated, is being modernized and revamped. Thus the higher education system in Bangladesh developed periodically with vision and meeting demand of time. Private higher education also developed simultaneously saving foreign currency and ensuring total human development.
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