Founded in 1993, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) is one of the oldest and leading private universities in Bangladesh where academic excellence is a tradition, teaching a passion and lifelong learning a habit. IUB currently has more than 9,800 undergraduate and graduate students and over 13,700 alumni. The students of IUB experience an exciting academic life with copious opportunities to explore and nurture their innate talent.
Live in Field Experience (LFE) is a signature course of IUB. It allows IUB students, most of whom come from urban settings, to have an immersive experience of everyday life in rural Bangladesh. Unique in Bangladesh, the overarching idea, which owes its roots to some of the leading social thinkers of this region, is to bridge the gap in knowledge that an urban student has about their rural counterparts. As part of the LFE, which is a mandatory course, small groups of students (usually 5-10, mix of male and female, and English and Bangla medium backgrounds) spend a certain amount of time at different locations in Bangladesh and experience life in the fields.
IUB emerges runners-up in men’s football in NSU Sports Carnival
13/05/2024
The IUB Football team has clinched the Runner-up position in Men’s Football of the ongoing NSU Inter-University Sports Carnival 2023. In the final held on Sunday (September 17, 2023) at the the Dhaka Arena field near Kuril in Dhaka, IUB lost to Brac University by a solitary goal.
Saif Mannan Ratul, a student of Human Resource Management at IUB, emerged as the standout performer of the tournament scoring a total of 8 eight goals in the tournament, with back-to-back hat-tricks in the group stage matches.
In the group stage, IUB defeated Sher E Bangla Agricultural University 4-0. Ratul scored his first hat-trick in this match. Intishar Chowdhury scored the other goal for IUB. In the next match, IUB dominated Green University with a 5-2 victory. Ratul scored yet another hat-trick in this match. Intishar scored one goal in this match.
In the quarterfinal, IUB beat Daffodil International University (DIU) by two goals to one in a nail-biting encounter. Ratul and Intishar scored the two goals for IUB. In the semi, IUB overturned the strong team from the Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTex) by a solitary goal. Once again, Ratul scored for IUB.
The IUB team was trained by coach Mahbub Manik, a former national level football player.