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The
Department of Applied Chemistry, the first of this kind in Bangladesh ,
was established in 1967, and started functioning by opening the M.Sc.
(Previous) course with an aim to develop knowledge on chemical
technology in general. Professor Fazlul Halim Chowdhury was the founder
Head of the Department. The Department became a full fledged teaching
and research unit of the university in 1971 with the start of B. Sc. (Honours)
course. In 1988, the department was renamed as Department of Applied
Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Steady growth in the quality of
teaching and research during the past 27 years has led the department in
achieving a high national ranking