Background:-
International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC) is one of the Government approved Private Universities in Bangladesh. The credit for the idea of establishing this University goes to Islamic University Chittagong Trust (IUCT), which is the founder organization of the University. The Trust is a non-political and non-profit voluntary organization, registered with the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh under the Societies Act XXI of 1860.
This Trust felt the need for a University under private initiative in view of absence of institutions of higher learning based on Islamic vision of life in the public sector. Based on an idea, which had its origin in 1990, the Trust discussed the concept of a private Islamic University with a group of intellectuals, Islamic thinkers, researchers and educationists, at home and abroad.
It was these Islamic personalities who came forward to materialize the dream of such an institution by putting together their ideas, energies and financial resourees, In 1992, they established an anchor organization called Islamic University Chittagong Trust (IUCT).Under the aegis of this body and by the Grace of Allah (SWT) Islamic University Chittagong got the Government’s approval on February 11, 1995 and the University was founded in the same year accordingly. Thus, a long-cherished dream of the people of Chittagong came to reality.
