Name of the Company: North South University

Address: Plot 15, Block B

Bashundhara, Dhaka 1229
Bangladesh
Type of Organization: Not for Profit.
Type of Business: Service/Higher Education.
Established: 1992
Institutes: Institute of Modern Language, Confucius Institute, and Center for Information &
Communication Technology.
Academic Divisions: School of Business, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, School of
Humanities & Social Sciences, School of Health & Life Sciences.
Collaboration with Foreign Universities: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA; Coventry
University, UK; University of Maryland, USA;
Wayne State University, USA etc.
International Recognition: Credits obtained at NSU are accepted in most reputable universities
of USA, Canada, Australia, UK and other countries.
Recent Changes:
Current Priorities, Main Issues: Obtaining accreditation with a principal focus on continuous
academic quality enhancement.
Business Model: Centralized
Organizational Structure:
Major Business Activities: Recruiting qualified faculty members and staff, Designing academic
programs,

Practicing

good

governance

and

administration

encouraging faculty-staff participation, Purposeful engagement with

alumni and community leaders.
Primary/Priority Markets:
Changes to markets in past few years: Increasing the number of private universities.
Major Customers (Current): Students and professionals seeking higher education.
Vision Statement: To be a center of excellence in higher education. It will gain recognition,
nationally and globally and will attract students, faculty, and staff from all
parts of the world.

Mission Statement: To produce competent graduates in their selected disciplines who will have
productive careers or choose to engage in advanced studies.
Values: Highly qualified faculty members, No session jam, Library facilitating access to local
and foreign journals, Collaboration with reputed foreign universities, and Student
activity clubs.
Business Strategy (Diversification): Diversification in terms of offered programs.
Economic Intent: Nonprofit making.
Value Chain:
Accreditations: Fully accredited by University Grants Commission (UGS). ABET accreditation
for Engineering & Computer Science Programs and ACBSP accreditation for
School of Business Programs are currently under process.
Markets & Services: Higher education service in a rapidly growing market.
Workforce: Consist of mostly faculty members and some staff members. Total no of faculty
members 305.
Average Length of Service:
Staff members: 9 A.M. 4 P.M.
Faculty members: 8 A.M. 6 P.M.
Average Qualification/educational background:
Staff members: Graduation from reputed local university.
Faculty members: Post Graduation from reputed foreign university.
Recruitment process used: Posting advertisements in national dailies and then examining
candidates in multiple steps.