Barisal, Bangladesh (BBN) – Barisal University (BU) has announced its admission schedule for the first batch under 2011-12 academic session.

The decision was taken at an admission committee meeting held on Sunday with its vice chancellor Professor Harunor Rashid Khan in the chair.

Under the decision, 65 students in Mathematics department under Science faculty, 65 in English department under Humanities, 65 each in Economics and Sociology under Social Science, 70 each in Marketing and Business Management of Business Studies faculty, would be admitted.

Application forms would be available from the website and office of the university from September 21. Those would be accepted till October 20 with BDT 300 for each form to appear at the admission test.

GPA-7.5 in SSC and HSC results without fourth subject for science (Ka-unit), GPA-6.5 for humanities and social science (Kha-unit) and GPA-7 for business (Ga-unit) faculty subjects would be required to qualify for admission test while 80 marks would be counted for HSC and SSC results.

Those who passed SSC and HSC examinations not before 2007 and 2009 are eligible to apply.

A 100-mark written admission test in MCQ system would be held on December 2 and selected candidates qualifying in written test would appear for a 20-mark viva.

BBN/SSR/AD-06Sept11-11:08 am (BST)