Military Institute of Science and Technology 5.99

Military Institute of Science and Technology commonly known as MIST is an advanced Engineering Institution of Bangladesh. It is the pioneer Institution of Bangladesh Armed Forces for Engineering education. It is under the affiliation of Bangladesh University of Professionals, a university governed by the Armed Forces of Bangladesh. MIST and other 9 institutes are now under BUP. It is an Armed Forces institution and there are almost 2500 students in this institution, where both military students and civil students study for taking Engineering degree.HistoryMIST came into existence on 19 April 1998 and academic programs were launched on January 1999. The initial batches included only selected military students. Feeling the necessity of spreading quality engineering education, the authority decided to admit civil students (both male and female) and from 2002, civilian students started to admit in different departments through passing a rigorous 'Admission Test'. The maiden department of the institute is Civil Engineering department which started functioning from 1999. After that on 2000, Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) department established. Mechanical Engineering (ME) department and Electrical, Electronic & Communication Engineering (EECE) department were established on year 2003. MIST started it's Masters program in different discipline from 2012 and MPhil/PhD from year 2014.CampusMIST is located at Mirpur Cantonment, on the northwest edge of Dhaka City. Students' hall and teachers' quarters are at the last end of the campus. The academic buildings of MIST are on 50acre of land. This area is confined with officers' mess, four tower building (two of them are completed, known as Tower Building-1 and Tower Building-2), cafeteria, library,two vast fields for the civil students, medical center, physical center and administrative buildings. Halls for students and teachers are situated outside the campus. Recently more land was issued for the campus for residential accommodation.