The government has given approval to private entrepreneurs to set up six more private universities in the country.
The new universities will start their academic programme within the next six months, said Muhammad Saifullah, information and public relations officer of the Education Ministry.
On January 6, 2016, six private universities got approval from the Ministry of Education, said the official.
The International University of Scholars and Canadian University of Bangladesh will be set in Dhaka while University of Creative Technology in Chittagong, Rabindra Moitri University in Kushtia, Northern University in Khulna and NPI University of Bangladesh in Manikganj.
With the new ones, the number of private universities in the country has increased to 89 from 83, according to the officials of University Grants Commission of Bangladesh.
The approval of the new universities came amid the widespread criticism that most of the existing private universities do not have own campuses.
