page_title: Dhaka College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dhaka College / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph taken by Fritz Kapp in 1904 with a view of Dacca College from the tennis courts in Dacca (now Dhaka), part of an album of 30 prints from the Curzon Collection.
context_page_description: Dhaka College is the oldest institution of Bangladesh located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It offers higher secondary education. It has Honours and Masters programs as well which divisions are affiliated to the University of Dhaka.
context_section_description: Dhaka College is one of Bangladesh's most important as well as these earliest higher-secondary educational institutions. It was established by James Taylor Wise (civil surgeon at Dhaka) in1835 as an English Seminary School (at present Dhaka Collegiate School). Mr. Wise organized a local Committee of Public Instruction with the help of district magistrate Mr. Grant.
  The school building was built partly out of public donations on the grounds of an English factory. On July 18, 1841, the school got their approval of the college. On 20 November 1841, the foundation stone of the college was placed and buildings were completed in 1846, with the aid of the Bishop of Calcutta. In the first graduating class there were both Muslim and Hindu students, as well as a number of foreign students, mainly from Armenia and Portugal.
  The college was relocated in 1873 to a large building to the east of Victoria Park in order to accommodate the physics and chemistry laboratories. In 1908, it shifted to Curzon Hall while the science departments were housed in the present chemistry building of the University of Dhaka and two new halls were built there as well. In 1921, the college shifted again to the old High Court Building as University of Dhaka was established there. During the Second World War it moved to Siddique Bazar in purana Dhaka. Finally the college found its own permanent campus on Mirpur Road, Dhanmondi near Dhaka New Market since 1955.
  Affiliations
  Calcutta University 
   (18 July 1841 – 1 July 1921)
  University of Dhaka 
   (1 July 1921 – 20 October 1992)
  National University, Bangladesh 
   (21 October 1992 – 15 February 2017)
  University of Dhaka 
   (16 February 2017 – present) 
  Partial list of the principals
  Dr. T Wise
  W Brennad
  W Booth
  F C Turner
  A J Archibald
  PK Roy
  Mondi Shahib
  Jalal Uddin Ahmed (1968)
  Bashirul Haque (2008)
  Naiyer Sultana
  Ayesha Begum (2013)
  Tuhin Afroza Alam (2015)
  Moazzem Hossen Mollah (2016, 2017, 2018)
  Nehal Ahmed (2020)
caption: Dhaka College in 1904 (located at Dhaka Collegiate School premise)
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